Introduction to Kafka proxy capabilities (authentication, networking, virtualization)

A Live Hands-On Workshop

As Kafka adoption grows, platform teams hit friction beyond broker management:

• Cross-network connectivity
• Authentication for applications outside of AWS IAM (e.g. an external application that needs to authenticate with OIDC or mTLS with custom certificates)
• Efficient multitenancy for non-production and developer sandbox environments

This workshop explores all three problems and provides solutions using Conduktor Gateway, a flexible, Kafka-aware proxy. You'll work in a live AWS environment across three hands-on labs. You will leave knowing how to use Conduktor Gateway to solve these challenges within your Kafka environment.

No AWS account needed. You don't need your own AWS account to take part. We provide access to a live Conduktor environment on AWS so you can complete every lab during the session.

What You'll Build

• Route Kafka traffic through a single proxy endpoint. No per-broker networking config.
• Onboard a new application without touching IAM configuration.
• Run Dev and QA on a single cluster with full isolation between environments.

Future workshops will cover additional capabilities like disaster recovery, field-level encryption, data quality enforcement, and protecting Kafka from poorly configured clients.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for:

• Platform engineers operating Kafka
• Architects designing streaming platforms
• Developers building Kafka applications

Participants should have a basic understanding of Kafka concepts.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, July 23 Time: 10:00 AM ET Duration: 90 minutes