Configuring Authentication with Kerberos
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Configuring Kafka for Kerberos

This section describes how to configure Kafka for Kerberos security on an Ambari-managed cluster.

Kerberos security for Kafka is an optional feature. When security is enabled, features include:

  • Authentication of client connections (consumer, producer) to brokers

  • ACL-based authorization