Clarification regarding SASL Authentication with Event Streams

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Clarification regarding SASL Authentication with Event Streams

[manesioz]

Apologies, I have been recently side-tracked by other work and have not implemented your solution yet. I will try this soon and get back to you, thanks!

[manesioz]

cc @mimaison :)

[mimaison]

See the required configurations in https://github.com/ibm-messaging/event-streams-samples/blob/master/kafka-nodejs-console-sample/app.js#L145-L156

It looks like you're setting security.protocol incorrectly. It should be set to sasl_ssl.

[manesioz]

Thanks for the quick reply.
When I used that I got the error

Error: Invalid value "sasl_ssl" for configuration property "security.protocol"

My node-rdkafka version is 1.2.2, with features

[ 'gzip',
  'snappy',
  'sasl',
  'regex',
  'lz4',
  'sasl_gssapi',
  'sasl_plain',
  'plugins' ]

Should I downgrade versions? Odd considering the docs show that security.protocol can have values plaintext, ssl, sasl_plaintext, sasl_ssl.

Edit: I also can't seem to find any information for the param ssl.ca.location, is that found on the credentials page of the event stream?

[mimaison]

It looks like you're missing SSL support. See the required dependencies https://github.com/ibm-messaging/event-streams-samples/blob/master/docs/librdkafka.md

I recommend looking at the sample application we provide to get familiar with the required configurations and the different options. For example, ssl.ca.location is mentioned in https://github.com/ibm-messaging/event-streams-samples/blob/master/kafka-nodejs-console-sample/app.js#L70-L73

[mimaison]

@manesioz Did you get it working? Can we close this issue?