Securing JMX on Confluent Kafka Confluent kafka process start with these default arguments. You can see that JMX authentication is disabled by default. This is a security vulnerability and might lead to possible issues. Confluent kafka consists of the following services. We need to enable authentication for all of these services for JMX: Kafka Broker… Continue reading »
Using Landoop’s Schema Registry UI In this post, we are going to setup Schema Registry UI for Confluent’s schema registry using Docker Image for the tool. Schema Registry is an amazing tool by Landoop. It’s available in Github. Let’s first pull the image from Docker Hub. Now we can simply run the docker image by… Continue reading »
Confluent Components & Their HTTP Ports It is very important to remember the ports of individual components of Confluent Platform. The following is the list of default ports for the respective components. It must be remembered that these ports can be overridden during deployment. More details can be found on this page on confluent.io where… Continue reading »
Overriding Default Serialization for Kafka Connect – Be Careful Serialization / Deserialization for Confluent platform can be sometimes tricky. There are certain defaults to the platform. As developers, it is our responsibility to understand the defaults and tweak the parts which are necessary. Even just a little mismatch can be sometimes very cumbersome and might… Continue reading »