Re: Securing Kafka

2013-04-23 Thread Matt Wise
The other issue with this model is that you're Kafka servers are available on the internet ... so anyone else can push data into them. At least, if you are running in a cross-cloud/cross-datacenter environment. We're struggling with the same design issues right now. What we've hoped for is that

Re: Using Stunnel to encrypt/authenticate Kafka producers and consumers...

2013-04-22 Thread Matt Wise
ng to have in kafka-contrib. > > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Matt Wise wrote: > >> Hi there... we're currently looking into using Kafka as a pipeline for >> passing around log messages. We like its use of Zookeeper for coordination >> (as we alread

Using Stunnel to encrypt/authenticate Kafka producers and consumers...

2013-04-22 Thread Matt Wise
Hi there... we're currently looking into using Kafka as a pipeline for passing around log messages. We like its use of Zookeeper for coordination (as we already make heavy use of Zookeeper at Nextdoor), but I'm running into one big problem. Everything we do is a) in the cloud, b) secure, and c)