Confluent Private Cloud Gateway Release Notes

This topic summarizes the technical details of the Confluent Private Cloud Gateway releases.

Confluent Private Cloud Gateway 1.0.0 Release Notes

Confluent Private Cloud Gateway, part of the core Confluent offering Confluent Private Cloud, is an enterprise-grade, stateless, self-managed, on-premises solution. It is Kafka protocol-aware and helps decouple your client applications from the underlying streaming infrastructure.

Major features and highlights

Confluent Private Cloud Gateway is a Kafka protocol-aware proxy positioned between clients and clusters for stateless routing. The first release of Confluent Gateway offers the following features:

  • Enables operational governance, and seamless migrations (blue-green upgrades, disaster recovery switch-overs) without client modifications.

  • Facilitates secure external partner access with public endpoints for private Kafka clusters exposure, authentication swapping, and advanced traffic controls.

  • Supports customizable routing and streaming domains.

  • Multiple combinations of authentication swapping with secure credential storage and retrieval

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