# 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

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