Confluent Cloud SASL Example

New in Seldon Core 2.5.0

Seldon Core 2 can integrate with Confluent Cloud managed Kafka. In this example we use SASL security mechanism.

Create API Keys

In your Confluent Cloud environment create new API keys. The easiest way to obtain all required information is to head to Clients -> New client (choose e.g. Go) and generate new Kafka cluster API key from there.

This will generate for you:

• Key (we use it as username)

• Secret (we use it as password)

Do not forget to also copy the bootstrap.servers from the example config.

See Confluent Cloud documentation in case of issues.

Create Kubernetes Secret

Seldon Core 2 expects password to be in form of K8s secret

kubectl create secret generic confluent-kafka-sasl -n seldon-mesh --from-literal password="<Confluent Cloud API Secret>"

Configure Seldon Core 2

Configure Seldon Core 2 by setting following Helm values:

# k8s/samples/values-confluent-kafka-sasl.yaml.tmpl
kafka:
  bootstrap: < Confluent Cloud Broker Endpoints >
  topics:
    replicationFactor: 3
    numPartitions: 4
  consumer:
    messageMaxBytes: 8388608
  producer:
    messageMaxBytes: 8388608

security:
  kafka:
    protocol: SASL_SSL
    sasl:
      mechanism: "PLAIN"
      client:
        username: < username >
        secret: confluent-kafka-sasl
    ssl:
      client:
        secret:
        brokerValidationSecret:

You may need to tweak replicationFactor and numPartitions to your cluster configuration.

Troubleshooting

• First check Confluent Cloud documentation.

• Set the kafka config map debug setting to all. For Helm install you can set kafka.debug=all.