In this baller talk, we will be addressing the elephant in the room that no one ever wants to look at or talk about: security. We generally never want to talk about configuring security because if we do, we allocate risk of penetration by exposing ourselves to exploitation. However, this leads to a lot of confusion around proper Kafka security best practices and how to appropriately lock down a cluster when you are starting out. In this talk we will demystify the elephant in the room without deconstructing it limb by limb. We will give you a notion of how to configure the following for BOTH clients and servers: * TLS or Kerberos Authentication * Encrypt your network traffic via TLS * Perform authorization via access control lists (ACLs) We will also demonstrate the above with a GitHub repo you can try out for yourself. Lastly, we will present a reference implementation of oauth if that suits your fancy. All in all you should walk away with a pretty decent understanding of the necessary aspects required for a secure Kafka environment.
