Can you use a Kafka HTTP proxy instead of using the Kafka protocol directly?
Ryanne On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 7:29 PM Jack S <jacksilver1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We have a requirement for opening Kafka on WAN where external producers and > consumers need to be able to talk to Kafka. I was able to get Zookeeper and > Kafka working with two way SSL and SASL for authentication and ACL for > authorization. > > However, my concern with this approach was opening up Kafka brokers > directly on WAN and also doing SSL termination. Is there a proxy solution, > where proxies live in front of Kafka brokers, so Kafka brokers are still > hidden and proxies take care of SSL? Has anyone in the community have > similar use case with Kafka, which is deployed in production? Would love to > find out your experience, feedback, or recommendation for this use case. > > Thanks in advance. > > PS: We are using AWS. >
