The patch aims to extend the existing documentation of secure Kafka channel with describing SSL+Plaintext setup as well as providing the whole package (SSL+Kerberos+Plain) for KafkaSource and KafkaSink.

Attila Simon We should include a reference to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2561 - some users have reported severe degradation of performance when using Kafka+TLS

Commit 2fd0d2572ceb2bc0138c880a3b763647349b64f4 in flume's branch refs/heads/trunk from Attila Simon
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=flume.git;h=2fd0d25 ]

FLUME-2971. Add secure Kafka Sink/Source/Channel setup to the User Guide

The User Guide already has details about configuring Kafka channel to work with a kerberized Kafka cluster.

This patch adds similar description for Kafka Sink and Kafka Source.

Reviewers: Tristan Stevens, Mike Percy, Bessenyei Balázs Donát

(Attila Simon via Bessenyei Balázs Donát)

LGTM, +1

I'm about to commit this

Attila Simon: thanks for the patch!

Tristan Stevens, Mike Percy: thank you for the reviews!

UNSTABLE: Integrated in Jenkins build Flume-trunk-hbase-1 #210 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Flume-trunk-hbase-1/210/)
FLUME-2971. Add secure Kafka Sink/Source/Channel setup to the User Guide (bessbd: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/repo?p=flume.git&a=commit&h=2fd0d2572ceb2bc0138c880a3b763647349b64f4)

• (edit) flume-ng-doc/sphinx/FlumeUserGuide.rst