Kafka Pixy and TLS

While looking for a suitable REST/Web proxy for Kafka I stumbled upon Kafka Pixy. Out of the box Kafka Pixy supports a very simple REST API as well as a more performant gRPC API and so it looked like a great option. Setting it up looked very straight forward until I realized that it did not support TLS connections to Kafka. I searched the Github issues and sadly my initial understanding was confirmed with issue #178 - TLS between kafka-pixy and kafka....

February 19, 2020 · 1 min · Ali Hamidi