Enabling user/password authentication for Kafka topics in an AMQ Streams cluster

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If AMQ Streams is set up using the instructions in Red Hat's documentation, the basic installation will have no client security -- all clients can produce to, and consume from, all Kafka topics. This article describes how to change the authentication mode to user/password (specifically, the SCRAM-SHA-512 variant), and create a user with specific privileges.

1. Ensure that the user oper...

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