The scheme used for authentication with the Apache Kafka broker.

Possible Values

None, Plain, SCRAM, SCRAM-SHA-512, Kerberos, SSLCertificate, AzureAD, AzureMSI, AzureServicePrincipal, AzureServicePrincipalCert

Data Type

string

Default Value

"None"

Remarks

The supported schemes are described as follows:

None	Anonymous authentication will be used, and you can connect to the data source without specifying the user credentials.
Plain	The plain text login module will be used.
SCRAM	The SCRAM login module will be used with SHA-256 hashing.
SCRAM-SHA-512	The SCRAM login module will be used with SHA-512 hashing.
Kerberos	Kerberos authentication will be used, when using this value the system kerberos configuration file should be specified.
SSLCertificate	SSL client certificate authentication will be used.

In addition, the following schemes are supported when connecting to Azure Event Hubs:

AzureAD	Set this to perform Azure Active Directory OAuth authentication.
AzureMSI	Set this to automatically obtain Managed Service Identity credentials when running on an Azure VM.
AzureServicePrincipal	Set this to authenticate as an Azure Service Principal using a Client Secret.
AzureServicePrincipalCert	Set this to authenticate as an Azure Service Principal using a Certificate.