Kafka

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Channel Revision Published Runs on
3/stable 123 24 May 2023
Ubuntu 22.04
3/edge 123 23 May 2023
Ubuntu 22.04
juju deploy kafka --channel 3/stable
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Platform:

Ubuntu
22.04

How to enable encryption

Note: The TLS settings here are for self-signed-certificates which are not recommended for production clusters, the tls-certificates-operator charm offers a variety of configurations, read more on the TLS charm here

Enable TLS

# deploy the TLS charm
juju deploy tls-certificates-operator --channel=edge
# add the necessary configurations for TLS
juju config tls-certificates-operator generate-self-signed-certificates="true" ca-common-name="Test CA"
# to enable TLS relate the two applications
juju relate tls-certificates-operator zookeeper
juju relate tls-certificates-operator kafka

Manage keys

Updates to private keys for certificate signing requests (CSR) can be made via the set-tls-private-key action.

# Updates can be done with auto-generated keys with
juju run-action kafka/0 set-tls-private-key --wait
juju run-action kafka/1 set-tls-private-key --wait
juju run-action kafka/2 set-tls-private-key --wait

Passing keys to external/internal keys should only be done with base64 -w0 not cat. With three brokers this schema should be followed:

# generate shared internal key
openssl genrsa -out internal-key.pem 3072
# apply keys on each unit
juju run-action kafka/0 set-tls-private-key "internal-key=$(base64 -w0 internal-key.pem)"  --wait
juju run-action kafka/1 set-tls-private-key "internal-key=$(base64 -w0 internal-key.pem)"  --wait
juju run-action kafka/2 set-tls-private-key "internal-key=$(base64 -w0 internal-key.pem)"  --wait

To disable TLS remove the relation

juju remove-relation kafka tls-certificates-operator
juju remove-relation zookeeper tls-certificates-operator

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