Authentication/authorization mechanisms for Kafka/Redpanda

[matthieugouel]

Right now there is no authentication/authorization (TLS, mTLS,…) mechanism to connect to Kafka/Redpanda output pipeline.
That's because right now I don't really need it, since my Redpanda instance is not accessible on the outside for now.
But it might change soon.

[matthieugouel]

This feature has been done in saimiris using rust-rdkafka crate. It's a binding to librdkafka, whereas kafka-rust, used currently in risotto, is written fully in Rust.

But it is more feature rich and it is way easier to setup SASL authentication.