Kafka Cluster
Set the ENVIRONMENT_NAME variable to provide a UI friendly name for your Kafka cluster.
kPow requires at least one configured Kafka cluster to operate.
When configuring Multi-Cluster installations the first cluster configured is your Primary Cluster and contains all the snapshot, metrics, and audit metadata for the installation.
Each configured Kafka cluster can have one associated Schema registry and/or Kafka connect cluster.
kPow is compatible with Apache Kafka 1.0+.
kPow has been tested and is compatible with Apache Kafka, Red Had AMQ Streams, Aiven Managed Kafka, Instaclustr Managed Kafka, Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud*.
*Some disk related metrics and telemetry are not available when using kPow with Confluent Cloud.
kPow is capable of integrating with FIPS compliant Kafka clusters.
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User permissions to Kafka cluster resources are defined by Cluster actions.
kPow connects to a Kafka cluster with exactly the same configuration as a Kafka consumer or producer.
This configuration may be familiar to you, and is provided to kPow by environment variables.
The list of connection variables follows, many are optional. Consult the Kafka client docs for more info.
Variable | Description |
ENVIRONMENT_NAME | UI friendly label for this cluster and resources |
BOOTSTRAP | The Kafka cluster bootstrap URL |
SECURITY_PROTOCOL | PLAINTEXT, SSL, SASL_PLAINTEXT, or SASL_SSL |
SASL_MECHANISM | GSSAPI, AUTHBEARER, SCRAM, PLAIN, |
SASL_JAAS_CONFIG | Java Authentication and Authorization Service config |
SSL_KEYSTORE_LOCATION | The path to a keystore for auth with certificates |
SSL_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD | The password to access the auth keystore |
SSL_KEY_PASSWORD | The password of the key within the keystore |
SSL_KEYSTORE_TYPE | The file format of the keystore file |
SSL_KEYMANAGER_ALGORITHM | The key manager algorithm used for SSL |
SSL_TRUSTSTORE_LOCATION | The path to a truststore for auth with certificates |
SSL_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD | The password to access the auth truststore |
SSL_TRUSTSTORE_TYPE | The file format of the truststore file |
SSL_TRUSTMANAGER_ALGORITHM | The trust manager algorithm user for SSL |
SSL_ENDPOINT_IDENTIFICATION_ALGORITHM | Often required when authenticating via SSL |
SSL_PROVIDER | Name of the security provider used for SSL |
SSL_CIPHER_SUITES | A list of cipher suites |
SSL_PROTOCOL | TLS, TLSv1.1, or TLSv1.2 |
SSL_ENABLED_PROTOCOLS | The list of protocols enabled for SSL |
