Hi We have a Kafka Client (Producer) which periodically generates some stuff and pushes to a Kafka Broker, that is out of our network. We want to use secure Kafka using SSL.
I read the http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security. in which it explains about the Kafka with SSL. I have a question: so on my Producer VM I have generated public/private key pair and a certificate. There is an independent CA (certificate authority) which we don't know as of now. I am wondering if there are any free *certificate signing services* online where I can make a REST based call by providing our unsigned certificate, and the CA will return a signed certificated, along with its certificate which we can add to our keystone and trust store ? I am sort of a newbie, so I am interested in how CA's sign the certificates ? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Raghav
