SASL

The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in connection-oriented protocols. It acts as an interface between protocols and replaceable mechanisms.

Apache Kafka supports SASL for client authentication, which can be used alongside TLS/SSL encryption. Kafka supports the following SASL mechanisms:

GSSAPI (Kerberos authentication)
OAUTHBEARER
SCRAM
PLAIN
Delegation Tokens
LDAP

Currently, Zilla supports SASL/PLAIN and SASL/SCRAM authentication for Kafka.

Info

For additional SASL mechanism support, share feedback on the SASL enhancement request.