Integrating AWS IAM Authentication with Strimzi-Cluster-Operator for Kafka Connect

[shubhamg7]

Hello! My team is looking to utilize Strimzi to setup Kafka-Connect on Kubernetes. We are hoping to integrate this with AWS MSK and utilize TLS for encryption and IAM Access Control for authentication and authorization.

I am aware that Strimzi does not support IAM auth out of the box. Looking at some discussions in Issue 2761 and Discussion 5239 it seems like a solution may be possible here by tweaking environment variables in the strimzi-cluster-operator, and it does seem like people have been successful with it.

I was wondering if there were any known solutions and/or documentation written up that demonstrates if this integration is possible and how we can go about doing it?

Strimzi Version: 0.21.1

[scholzj]

There is nothing AWS IAM specific in the docs. Just the generic docs about mounting secrets in Kafka Connect: https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/0.22.1/full/using.html#type-ExternalConfiguration-reference ... but if you get it working it would for example make a nice blog post or docs PR.