I'm new to Apache-kafka and I'm involved in a project where I have to setup a Kafka Consumer in RHEL7. The goal is to subscribe into topics in an external server.
I installed Apache Kafka and set up a sample producer and a sample consumer, both locally. It works and Kafka Consumer is able to receive data from the producer.
However, becoming a consumer for the external server is more complicated as it requires Kerberos authentication using a keytab file. I'm somewhat lost in where to begin with.
Is there a sample consumer which I could use to connect and check the message stream?
Does Kerberos authentication require some installation other than generating the keytab file?
What would be the best approach?