Behavioral Changes in Apache Kafka

Learn about the change in certain functionality of Kafka that has resulted in a change in behavior from the previously released version to this version of Cloudera Runtime.

Summary:

JMX authentication is enabled by default for the Kafka service. Additionally random passwords are now generated for both JMX users by default.

Previous behavior:

JMX authentication (Enable Authenticated Communication with the JMX Agent) was disabled by default.

New behavior:

JMX authentication (Enable Authenticated Communication with the JMX Agent) is now enabled by default. By default random passwords are generated for both JMX users.