When you want to expose Schema Registry access to client applications in your network or even the Internet, you need to make sure that Authentication and Authorization are properly configured so that only authorized users/apps can update schema and most users/apps will just have read-only access. Confluent has a paid security plugin as part of the enterprise license for authorization, but most of our users might not have access to it. Read More »

In most cases, we are using Open Source Kafka, Zookeeper and Confluent Schema Registry for our applications. For some customers, they have the enterprise license and support from Confluent Inc., but we have to focus on the access for most of the users. If you haven’t had Kafka and ZooKeeper installed, please refer to the installation document. Schema registry is an open source server from Confluent, and it can be easily installed via Docker. Read More »