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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by prateek arora <pr...@gmail.com> on 2015/10/23 19:15:07 UTC

How can i secure Kafka topics

Hi

Can i secure Kafka topics like Apache hbase and hdfs have kerberos  security
mechanism  ?

i am not able to find out any document related to Kafka security .


please suggest how can i secure Kafka .



Regards
Prateek

Re: How can i secure Kafka topics

Posted by Parth Brahmbhatt <pb...@hortonworks.com>.

If you are ok with SSL instead of kerberos follow this guide
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Deploying+SSL+for+Kafka

The patch to support for kerberos just went in see
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1686. But the usage doc still
needs to be created.

On 10/23/15, 10:15 AM, "prateek arora" <pr...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Can i secure Kafka topics like Apache hbase and hdfs have kerberos
>security
>mechanism  ?
>
>i am not able to find out any document related to Kafka security .
>
>
>please suggest how can i secure Kafka .
>
>
>
>Regards
>Prateek