Connecting Kafka-Python with a cluster with Kerberos

Question

I'm trying to connect to a Kafka with Kafka-Python, the Kafka cluster has Kerberos that we need to build some commands to do few steps.

I have created one Topic at the cluster and I did the test with ./kafka-console-producer.sh and ./kafka-console-consumer.sh and works really well.

But when I try to connect with Kafka-Python I had a problem. See my code below:

def produce():
    print ('Producer')
    k_producer = KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers='hostname:6667', 
                               security_protocol='SASL_PLAINTEXT',
                               sasl_plain_username='machine_usr',
                               sasl_plain_password='machine_pwd',
                               sasl_mechanism='PLAIN')
    for i in range(10):
        print ('Before send')
        k_producer.send('myTopic', 'Testing My Topic  ' + str(i))
        print ('After send')

Well, running this stuff I got this erro message after 30 secconds:

File "C:\Users\m\kafka-python-1.3.1\kafka.zip\kafka\producer\kafka.py", line 328, in __init__
File "C:\Users\m\kafka-python-1.3.1\kafka.zip\kafka\client_async.py", line 202, in __init__
File "C:\Users\m\kafka-python-1.3.1\kafka.zip\kafka\client_async.py", line 791, in check_version
kafka.errors.NoBrokersAvailable: NoBrokersAvailable

I'm running it in a remote machine. And the bootstrap_server I used the Zookeeper hostname and port but didn't work as well.

I found few things about it, and in the git of the Kafka-Python I found that they had implemented.

Is there other way to connect?

Answer 1

If the task is to solve this problem in python, another alternative could be to use confluent-kafka-python library that internally uses librdkafka that is written in C, and supports SASL, and the use of the keytab file. That wouldn't require having a separate Java process for the communication with kafka over SASL.

For instructions also refer to the documentation of the librdkafka library:

https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/wiki/Using-SASL-with-librdkafka - general intro https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md - the properties that can be passed into the constructor of confluent_kafka.Producer and confluent_kafka.Consumer in python