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Conduktor Gateway is a network proxy for Apache Kafka, complete with an extensible and dynamic plugin mechanism that can be used to add technical and business logic on top of your existing Kafka deployment.
Learn more: Conduktor Gateway The product overview: what Gateway does and the problems it solves.

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Gateway benefits

This can be used to provide functionality that is not available in Kafka natively, such as:
  • Centrally configure encryption at the field-level or full payload.
  • Mask sensitive data at the proxy layer.
  • Enforce governance and traffic control policies — rate limits, data quality rules, topic creation constraints.
  • Leverage multi-tenancy with Virtual Clusters and topic concentration.
  • Empower development teams with self-service governance.
Supports all Kafka providers (Confluent, AWS MSK, Redpanda, Aiven, Apache Kafka). Gateway is one of the main Conduktor components and together with Console make up the Conduktor platform: Conduktor overview

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How it works

Gateway acts as a Kafka-compliant middle layer between clients and Kafka clusters. Conduktor Gateway

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Authentication

Supports multiple security protocols:
  • PLAINTEXT
  • SSL
  • SASL SSL
  • mTLS

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Interceptors

Use Interceptors to add logic like encryption or filtering. Find out about Interceptors.