https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98164#M11647 <P>In Kafka, topic creation and deletion is still done directly at the ZooKeeper level and doesn't go through Broker. If you are using HDP, then OOTB, only principal "kafka" has permission to do these operations. </P><P>In future releases, Kafka community will support creation of Topics via Broker. Till that time, there is not much option, but to manage the creation/delete permissions using ZooKeeper ACLs</P> Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:54:37 GMT bdurai 2015-12-09T00:54:37Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98163#M11646 <P>It doesn't support creation and deletion of topics. I assume that adding a user to Ranger for kafka will provide producer and consumer authorization for kafka. If that is not case, I need to be enable native acls.</P> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 23:22:58 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98163#M11646 nbalaji-elangov 2015-12-08T23:22:58Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98164#M11647 <P>In Kafka, topic creation and deletion is still done directly at the ZooKeeper level and doesn't go through Broker. If you are using HDP, then OOTB, only principal "kafka" has permission to do these operations. </P><P>In future releases, Kafka community will support creation of Topics via Broker. Till that time, there is not much option, but to manage the creation/delete permissions using ZooKeeper ACLs</P> Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:54:37 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98164#M11647 bdurai 2015-12-09T00:54:37Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98165#M11648 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/128/nbalaji-elangovan.html" nodeid="128">@nbalaji-elangovan</A> has this been resolved? Please accept best answer or provide your own solution.</P> Wed, 03 Feb 2016 01:48:50 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/What-does-the-Ranger-plugin-for-Kerberized-kafka-currently/m-p/98165#M11648 aervits 2016-02-03T01:48:50Z