August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
278 pages
6h 40m
English
Let's now look into the steps to enable SSL in Kafka. Before you begin, you should generate the key, SSL certificate, keystore, and truststore that will be used by Kafka clients and brokers. You can follow the link https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security_ssl_key to create broker keys and certificate, the link https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security_ssl_ca to create your own certificate authority, and the link https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security_ssl_signing to sign the certificates. You should perform the same activity for clients (producer and consumer applications) as well. Once you are done creating certificates, you can enable Kafka SSL using the following steps.
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