Kafka Connector

Kafka Connector

Configuring basic authentication for Confluent schema registry in a mapping

Configuring basic authentication for Confluent schema registry in a mapping

You can configure basic authentication to establish a secure communication with Confluent schema registry using a valid username and password.

Configure the Kafka connection

Perform the following tasks to configure the Kafka connection to enable basic authentication with the Confluent schema registry:
  1. In
    Administrator
    , select
    Connections
    .
  2. Select a Kafka connection for which you want to enable basic authentication with the Confluent schema registry.
  3. Click
    Edit
    .
  4. In the
    Schema Registry Security Configuration Properties
    section of the Kafka connection properties, specify the following value in the
    Additional Security Properties Schema Registry
    property:
    basic.auth.credentials.source=USER_INFO,basic.auth.user.info=<username>:<password>
  5. Click
    Save
    to save the connection.

Configure the Secure Agent

Configure the JVM Options and INFA_DEBUG property for the Secure Agent to enable basic authentication with the Confluent schema registry and to successfully import the Avro metadata from the Confluent schema registry.
To configure the Secure Agent and successfully import the Avro metadata, perform the following steps:
  1. In
    Administrator
    , select
    Runtime Environments
    .
  2. Select the Secure Agent for which you want to configure from the list of available Secure Agents.
  3. In the upper-right corner, click
    Edit
    .
  4. In the
    System Configuration Details
    section, select the
    Type
    as
    DTM
    for the Data Integration Service.
  5. Edit the
    JVMOption2
    and add the following value:
    -Dbasic.auth.user.info=<username>:<password>
  6. Select the
    Type
    as
    Platform
    for the Data Integration Service.
  7. Edit the INFA_DEBUG property and add the following value:
    -Dbasic.auth.user.info=<username>:<password>
  8. Click
    Save
    .
  9. Restart the Secure Agent.

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