Configure Confluent Platform Components to Communicate with MDS over SSL¶

This topic describes the Kafka client configuration for Confluent Platform components communicating with MDS over SSL. These files can be found in your Confluent Platform install server directory in the following locations:

Component	Properties file to update
Schema Registry	`/etc/schema-registry/schema-registry.properties`
ksqlDB	`/etc/ksqldb/ksql-server.properties`
Connect	`/etc/kafka/connect-distributed.properties`
Confluent Control Center	`/etc/confluent-control-center/control-center.properties`
REST Proxy	`/etc/kafka-rest/kafka-rest.properties`

Specify the following Kafka client configuration for your component. Any content in brackets (<>) must be customized for your environment.

confluent.metadata.bootstrap.server.urls=https://<MDS-advertised-listener0>:8090,https://<MDS-advertised-listener1>:8090,...
confluent.metadata.http.auth.credentials.provider=BASIC
confluent.metadata.basic.auth.user.info=<username>:<password>
confluent.metadata.ssl.truststore.location=<truststore-location>
confluent.metadata.ssl.truststore.password=<truststore-password>
confluent.metadata.ssl.keystore.location=<keystore-location>
confluent.metadata.ssl.keystore.password=<keystore-password>
confluent.metadata.ssl.key.password=<key-password>
confluent.metadata.ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm=HTTPS