Use Red Hat's SSO to manage Kafka broker authorization

4 · Red Hat · May 4, 2022, 8:43 a.m.
In this article, you'll learn about user and group authorization through LDAP to an Apache Kafka cluster. For a Kafka broker, user- and group-based authorization are handled by Access Control Lists (ACLs). More fine-grained approaches to user and group authorization on Kafka cluster resources also use single sign-on (SSO). This article combines LDAP with Red Hat's single sign-on technology, which can write Kafka ACL rules. This use case applies to teams that are currently employing common ident...