Authenticate with SASL

Apache Kafka® brokers support client authentication using SASL. SASL authentication can be enabled concurrently with TLS/SSL encryption (TLS/SSL client authentication will be disabled).

Topics and tasks in this section:

• SASL using JAAS
• SASL/GSSAPI
• SASL/OAUTHBEARER
• SASL/PLAIN
• SASL/SCRAM
• Authentication using Delegation Tokens in Confluent Platform
• Kafka Client Authentication with LDAP