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Kafka TLS example project

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See the follwing article for an in-depth explanation and walkthrough of this repo https://medium.com/lydtech-consulting/securing-kafka-with-mutual-tls-and-acls-b235a077f3e3

Pre-requisites

  1. Ensure OpenSSL and a recent version of the Java JRE are installed (Java keytool needed for some steps)
  2. Create CA keypair (./certCreation/create-ca.sh)
  3. Create Server private key, and issue a cert signed by the CA (./certCreation/create-server-cert.sh)
  4. Create client private key, and issue cert signed by the CA (./certCreation/create-client-cert.sh)

Starting Kafka

  1. docker-compose up -d to start Zookeeper and Kafka. Kafka will use the server keystore & truststore

Kafka commands

  1. List topics (scripts/list-topics.sh)
  2. CLI consume (scripts/consume.sh)
  3. CLI produce (scripts/produce.sh)