My clients (producers) are combination of devices, sensors, application
hence volume of producers would be high. All I want to ensure Broker
receives data from trusted (my own) devices.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> majority of commercial entities (banks/financial-houses) pass this to a CA
> (certifying authority) who will be responsible for
> generating X509 certificates
> generating private key
> generating public key
> generating username (aka alias)
> generating password
>
> this depends on what type of PKI your client wants to setup at the very
> least you need to identify target env:
> which browser?
> which mobile device?
>
> also you will need to be aware of
> selected provider capabilities
> algorithms supported within provider
>
> also are you using Zookeeper?
> in which case will you be implementing either
> Kerberos5
> OR
> MD5
>
> implementing DIGEST-MD5 in ZK you will need to properly configure
> java.security as follows:
>
> MG>$JRE_HOME/lib/security/java.security entries verification :
> > MG>can you verify
> > Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION="DIGEST-MD5"
> ?
>
> MG>can you verify authentication Principal is set to EITHER u as in
> > Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL="u: cuser"
> > MG>OR authentication Principal is set to DistinguishedName
> > Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL="dn: cn=C. User, ou=NewHires, o=JNDITutorial"
>
> ?
>
> MG>what is value of zookeeper.sasl.client.username System Property ?
>
> Martin
> ________________________________
> From: Sivaprakash <sivaprakashshanmu...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:24 AM
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Static IP Configuration
>
> Any general best practice which can be followed in Kafka on this?
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote:
>
> > I'm afraid Kafka will not offer any help with this - at least not as far
> as
> > I know. You have to implement it on your own.
> >
> > Jakub
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Sivaprakash <sivaprakashshanmugam@gmail.
> > com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > In this case how authentication keys can be maintained? If I want to
> > change
> > > key/password for my cluster how can I change it in my clients
> (producers)
> > > because they might be sitting in my remote place (sensors/mobile apps)?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, the clients do not connect to Zookeeper anymore. You can create
> a
> > > > loadbalancer which will point to all your Kafka brokers and use the
> > > address
> > > > of such loadbalancer as the "bootstrap server" in your clients. The
> > > clients
> > > > will use the loadbalancer and connect to one of the Kafka brokers and
> > get
> > > > metadata from this broker. And with these metadata they will connect
> to
> > > the
> > > > different leaders as needed.
> > > >
> > > > Jakub
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Sivaprakash <
> > > > sivaprakashshanmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Just trying to understand how Zookeeper works with Kafka in recent
> > > > > versions. Document says Zookeeper need not be connected by Producer
> > and
> > > > > Subscriber.
> > > > >
> > > > > How to assign a static IP to the whole cluster (anything like load
> > > > > balancer) ? I want my producers to use only one IP or domain to
> > publish
> > > > > data irrespective of Kafka Broker Leader.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > - Prakash.
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> - Prakash.
>



-- 
- Prakash.

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