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Kerberos support for Kafka sink
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domain: security
good first issue
have: should
sink: kafka
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Description
There are some relevant librdkafka docs here.
This should be a relatively simple matter of exposing the relevant configuration values, similar to #1276.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read the linked librdkafka SASL/Kerberos documentation and compare issue #1276 to find how Kafka sink configuration values are exposed. Identify the relevant sink configuration path, expose the Kerberos-related values, and verify that the Kafka sink can use them for authentication.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kafka, rust
- Domain
- stream-processing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100