Becoming a Kafka Consumer with Kerberos

Asked Jul 12 '21 at 14:52

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I'm new to Apache-kafka and I'm involved in a project where I have to setup a Kafka Consumer in RHEL7. The goal is to subscribe into topics in an external server.

I installed Apache Kafka and set up a sample producer and a sample consumer, both locally. It works and Kafka Consumer is able to receive data from the producer.

However, becoming a consumer for the external server is more complicated as it requires Kerberos authentication using a keytab file. I'm somewhat lost in where to begin with.

Is there a sample consumer which I could use to connect and check the message stream?
Does Kerberos authentication require some installation other than generating the keytab file?
What would be the best approach?

edited Jul 12 '21 at 21:39

OneCricketeer

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asked Jul 12 '21 at 14:52

dab92

Who setup the external server? They should be the ones giving your keys and know how to configure the clients – OneCricketeer Jul 12 '21 at 21:39
I'm given credentials and steps to create the keytab file. Other than that, I'm told to setup a consumer 'as usual'. – dab92 Jul 13 '21 at 03:51
Have you seen this Cloudera documentation? https://docs.cloudera.com/runtime/7.2.1/kafka-securing/topics/kafka-secure-kerberos-enable.html – OneCricketeer Jul 13 '21 at 18:10
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I was able to subscribe to topics through a Kafka consumer script. Thanks for your inputs. – dab92 Jul 15 '21 at 04:25
Feel free to provide your working solution below as an answer – OneCricketeer Jul 15 '21 at 16:04

Becoming a Kafka Consumer with Kerberos

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