plaintext-basic-auth-Connect

Deploy Confluent Platform

In this workflow scenario, you'll set up Connect with basic authentication. You will use Control Center to monitor and connect to a Confluent Platform.

NOTE: Control Center does not support basic authentication to the Connect Cluster and you will not be able to connect to it via the UI.

The goal for this scenario is for you to:

• Configure basic authentication for Connect authentication (no RBAC).
• Quickly set up the complete Confluent Platform on the Kubernetes.
• Configure a producer to generate sample data.

To complete this scenario, you'll follow these steps:

1. Set the current tutorial directory.
2. Deploy Confluent For Kubernetes.
3. Deploy secret for basic authentication.
4. Deploy Confluent Platform.
5. Deploy the Producer application.
6. Tear down Confluent Platform.

Set the current tutorial directory

Set the tutorial directory for this tutorial under the directory you downloaded the tutorial files:

export TUTORIAL_HOME=<Tutorial directory>/security/plaintext-basic-auth-Connect

Deploy Confluent for Kubernetes

1. Set up the Helm Chart:

   helm repo add confluentinc https://packages.confluent.io/helm
   

2. Install Confluent For Kubernetes using Helm:

   helm upgrade --install operator confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes --namespace=confluent
   

3. Check that the Confluent For Kubernetes pod comes up and is running:

   kubectl get pods --namespace=confluent
   

Create Basic authentication secret

kubectl create secret generic basicsecret \
 --from-file=basic.txt=$TUTORIAL_HOME/basic.txt \
 --namespace confluent

Review Confluent Platform configurations

You install Confluent Platform components as custom resources (CRs).

You can configure all Confluent Platform components as custom resources. In this tutorial, you will configure all components in a single file and deploy all components with one kubectl apply command.

The entire Confluent Platform is configured in one configuration file: $TUTORIAL_HOME/confluent-platform.yaml

In this configuration file, there is a custom Resource configuration spec for each Confluent Platform component - replicas, image to use, resource allocations.

For example, the Kafka section of the file is as follows:

---
apiVersion: platform.confluent.io/v1beta1
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: kafka
  namespace: operator
spec:
  replicas: 3
  image:
    application: confluentinc/cp-server:7.6.0
    init: confluentinc/confluent-init-container:2.9.0
  dataVolumeCapacity: 10Gi
  metricReporter:
    enabled: true
---

Deploy Confluent Platform

1. Deploy Confluent Platform with the above configuration:

kubectl apply -f $TUTORIAL_HOME/confluent-platform.yaml --namespace=confluent

1. Check that all Confluent Platform resources are deployed:

   kubectl get confluent --namespace=confluent
   

2. Get the status of any component. For example, to check Kafka:

   kubectl describe kafka --namespace=confluent
   

Validate

Deploy producer application

Now that we've got the infrastructure set up, let's deploy the producer client app.

The producer app is packaged and deployed as a pod on Kubernetes. The required topic is defined as a KafkaTopic custom resource in $TUTORIAL_HOME/secure-producer-app-data.yaml.

The $TUTORIAL_HOME/secure-producer-app-data.yaml defines the elastic-0 topic as follows:

apiVersion: platform.confluent.io/v1beta1
kind: KafkaTopic
metadata:
  name: elastic-0
  namespace: confluent
spec:
  replicas: 1
  partitionCount: 1
  configs:
    cleanup.policy: "delete"

Deploy the producer app:

kubectl apply -f $TUTORIAL_HOME/producer-app-data.yaml --namespace=confluent

Validate authentication with Connect

kubectl --namespace=confluent exec -it connect-0 -- curl -u thisismyusername:thisismypass http://0.0.0.0:8083

The above should return something like this:

{"version":"6.1.0-ce","commit":"958ad0f3c7030f1c","kafka_cluster_id":"SjW1_kcORW-nSsU2Yy1R1Q"}

Validate in Control Center

Use Control Center to monitor the Confluent Platform, and see the created topic and data.

1. Set up port forwarding to Control Center web UI from local machine:

   kubectl port-forward controlcenter-0 9021:9021 --namespace=confluent
   

2. Browse to Control Center:

   http://localhost:9021
   

3. Check that the elastic-0 topic was created and that messages are being produced to the topic.

Tear Down

Shut down Confluent Platform and the data:

kubectl delete -f $TUTORIAL_HOME/producer-app-data.yaml --namespace=confluent

kubectl delete -f $TUTORIAL_HOME/confluent-platform.yaml --namespace=confluent

helm delete operator --namespace=confluent

helm delete secret basicsecret --namespace=confluent