How to use a Kafka broker with authentication
Overview
A Kafka broker provides the following authentication methods for client connection.
- SSL/TLS authentication (client authentication)
- SASL/GSSAPI (Kerberos)
- SASL/PLAIN
- SASL/SCRAM-SHA-256, SAL/SCRAM-SHA-512
- SASL/OAUTHBEARER
- Delegation token authentication
Among them, SINETStream supports the following methods.
Refer to the respective pages for instructions on how to configure SINETStream and a Kafka broker to enable authentication.