Schema Registry Security Plugin

This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.

With RBAC enabled, Schema Registry can authenticate incoming requests and authorize them based on role bindings. This allows schema evolution management to be restricted to administrative users, while providing users and applications with different types of access to a subset of subjects for which they are authorized (such as, write access to relevant subjects for producers, read access for consumers).

The Schema Registry plugin supports authorization for both role-based access control (RBAC) and ACLs, and you can configure it to use either or both. If both are configured, then requests are authorized by way of a logical OR. In other words, a request that is only authorized by RBAC or ACLs is still considered valid.

Tip

ACLs are separately available for Kafka and for Schema Registry. If you have ACLs enabled for Apache Kafka® (to protect topics, consumer groups, and so on), then you must configure Schema Registry with ACL permissions to read, write, create, and describe the _schemas topic. However, until either ACLs or Role-Based Access Control is also enabled for Schema Registry, any user can create, alter, and delete Schema Registry subjects.