Hi Chia-Ping, The plan sounds good to me. Since the document is really outdated, should we also backport it to older supported releases like 4.3 and 4.2, what do you think?
Thanks, Gergely On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 03:48, Chia-Ping Tsai <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven’t looked at the PR yet: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/23907 > > Doc fixes don’t need to wait for a release. Once the PR gets merged, we > can file a patch to kafka-site to update the web site right away :) > > On 2026/10/21 22:01:28 Gergely Harmadás wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > I also went through the docs and indeed it contains outdated > > information which can prevent you from setting up Kafka with SSL. I have > > opened KAFKA-21329 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-21329> > to > > work on updating the docs. It likely won't reach the official docs site > > until the release of Kafka 4.5 which is still months away. In the > meantime > > you can check out my patch at kafka/pull/23907 > > <https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/23907> and hopefully it can > unblock > > you in your SSL setup work. Of course any feedback is welcome on the > > updated steps :) > > > > Thanks, > > Gergely > > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 at 17:43, Alexander Lehmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I am currently trying to switch my Kafka test install to SSL by using > the > > > guide on the page Encryption and Authentication using SSL, however I am > > > failing to get anything working including the internal broker > > > communication, while I have had some experience with using openssl, I > have > > > none using keytool, so I assume that I am missing steps that should be > > > obvious but are not mentioned in the guide or the guide does not > completely > > > fit to the requirements like it is based on a previous version of Java > that > > > is deprecated now since some steps give an error about unsupported > command > > > parameters. > > > > > > Is it certain that the guide contains all steps necessary to actually > get a > > > dev installation of Kafka working with SSL? > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Alexander > > > > > > -- > > > Alexander Lehmann <[email protected]> > > > https://links.lehmann.cx/ > > > https://about.me/alexlehm > > > > > >
