Kafka credentials

You can use these credentials to authenticate the following nodes:

• Kafka
• Kafka Trigger

Prerequisites

Create a running Kafka environment. Refer to the Apache Kafka Quickstart for initial setup.

Supported authentication methods

• Client ID

Related resources

Refer to Kafka's documentation for more information about using the service.

Using client ID

To configure this credential, you'll need:

• A Client ID : Refer to Client groups for more information on defining client groups and client IDs .
• Brokers : Provide a comma-separated list of relevant brokers.
• SSL : Turn this on if SSL is enabled in your Kafka environment.
• Authentication : Turn this on if you've enabled authentication in your Kafka environment. Add details for the authentication:
  • Username
  • Password
  • Select the broker's configured SASL Mechanism : Refer to SASL configuration for more information. Options include:
    • Plain
    • scram-sha-256
    • scram-sha-512