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Confluent REST Proxy Security Plugin

This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.

Confluent REST Proxy allows producing and consuming messages through a REST interface. The security plugin adds the capability to authenticate the incoming request, build the principal and then propagate the same to the requests to Apache Kafka® using the configured security mechanism. The authorization is enforced through Kafka ACLs.

Note

The Confluent REST Proxy Security plugin and ACLs does not work with the V1 consumer API’s since it uses a simple consumer which doesn’t support Kafka Security.

• Using the Confluent REST Proxy Security Plugin
  • Install
    • ZIP and TAR Archives
    • Ubuntu and Debian
    • RHEL and CentOS
  • Activate the Plugins
  • Authentication Mechanisms
  • Configuration
• Principal Propagation
  • SSL
  • SASL