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Kafka Security (SSL/TLS)

Everything so far ran on a plaintext local cluster. This module is the one thing standing between this reference architecture and something you'd actually be allowed to run against a real production broker.

Learning objectives

  • Beginner: Explain why a plaintext local Kafka cluster is unsafe to run against a real production broker unmodified.
  • Intermediate: Set up SSL/TLS on a local Kafka cluster and configure both a producer and consumer to use it.
  • Advanced: Reason about how enterprises manage SSL certificate rotation for a Kafka cluster without downtime.

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Kafka Security (SSL/TLS)

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