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Reputation: 6804

Kafka and Zookeeper TLS

I am trying to enable TLS for kafka broker exchanges and had a thought regarding Zookeeper TLS. Currently, on Apache Kafka Documentation I cannot see much mentioned about ZK TLS setup (ok, probably because it's a different apache project) and any possible performance impact.

The question is, can I not have the ONLY broker-client and inter-broker exchanges secured? Do I also need to add TLS to zookeeper? Extra security isn't bad, but is it really necessary to it even for zookeeper?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3238

Answers (1)

dawsaw
dawsaw

Reputation: 2313

Zookeeper with TLS is only available in Zookeeper 3.5 which is still in beta. Therefore, Kafka isn't supporting TLS connections to zookeeper yet. Doesn't mean you can't do it but it does mean you won't find much documentation on it and if you run in it on something important, you are putting yourself at risk. In this case, I would say the extra security could hurt.

Upvotes: 4

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