Kafka source with a Kerberos Keytab authentication

[Shogobg]

Hello everyone,

I have a Kafka server with Kerberos GSSAPI authentication using a keytab file.
I was looking about how to set up vector to use the Keytab file to authenticate with Kafka, but i couldn't find anything in the documentation.

Can anyone help me with this?

[jszwedko]

I'm not super familiar with kerberos, but you can pass options directly to librdkafka via things like:

[sources.kafka]
type = "kafka"
librdkafka.some_option = "foo"

I do see some mention of kerberos and keytab in the available options: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md

[Shogobg]

Thank you! I think that will work.