If you are ok with SSL instead of kerberos follow this guide https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Deploying+SSL+for+Kafka
The patch to support for kerberos just went in see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1686. But the usage doc still needs to be created. On 10/23/15, 10:15 AM, "prateek arora" <prateek.arora...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi > >Can i secure Kafka topics like Apache hbase and hdfs have kerberos >security >mechanism ? > >i am not able to find out any document related to Kafka security . > > >please suggest how can i secure Kafka . > > > >Regards >Prateek