Dynamic Kafka ACLs: Implementing Identity-Aware Policies with Kong Event Gateway
Modern Kafka deployments struggle with a familiar tension. You want fine-grained access control per client, per team, and even per request. However, traditional ACLs force you into static, cluster-level configurations that are brittle, hard to scale, and painful to maintain. Administrators are often forced to manage massive, hardcoded lists of topics and users. But what if you could dynamically craft these ACLs using identity context?