security - Does Apache Kafka support LDAP, or is it a Confluent feature?

Question

I am quite new to security with Kafka. Just wondering if Kafka out of the box supports LDAP authentication or is it a confluent feature?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65839310/does-apache-kafka-support-ldap-or-is-it-a-confluent-feature

Answer 1

The only authentication Kafka support is

• TLS - Kafka server only communicates with clients having certificate that it trust, basically using TLS for mutual authentication

• SASL using Kerberos - If you are already using Kerberos server like Active Directory you can use it for setting up authentication or set up your own Kerberos server.

http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#security_ssl