Security in Kafka Stages

You can configure the Kafka Multitopic Consumer origin and the Kafka Producer destinationKafka stages – Kafka Consumer, Kafka Multitopic Consumer, and Kafka Producer – to use one of the following options to connect securely to Kafka:

SSL/TLS encryption
SSL/TLS encryption and authentication
SASL authentication
SASL authentication on SSL/TLS

For SASL authentication, either alone or with SSL/TLS, you can use the PLAIN (username/password) or GSSAPI (Kerberos) SASL mechanism.

Enabling security requires completing several prerequisite tasks in addition to configuring security properties in the stage.