Obtaining error "Denied operation = DESCRIBE_CONFIGS" from Kafka client
Issue
When trying to describe a Kafka topic called my-topic, using the user my-user, I obtain the following exception from the client side
2025-04-07 18:30:01,140 INFO Principal = User:my-user is Denied operation = DESCRIBE_CONFIGS from host = N.N.N.N on resource = Topic:LITERAL:my-topic for request = DescribeConfigs with resourceRefCount = 1 based on rule DefaultDeny (kafka.authorizer.logger) [data-plane-kafka-request-handler-4]
Environment
AMQ Broker v 7.12
AMQ Broker Operator v7.12
User defined like this
apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaUser
metadata:
...
name: my-user
spec:
authorization:
acls:
....
operations:
- Read
- Describe
- Write
- Create
resource:
name: my-topic
patternType: literal
type: topic
...
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