Security

Redpanda recommends that you always configure encryption, authentication, and authorization for production environments.

• Configuring Encryption
• Configuring Authentication
• Configuring Authorization
• IAM Roles

Security on Kubernetes

• Configuring TLS on Kubernetes
• Configuring SASL on Kubernetes

note

All concepts described in this section are compatible with Kafka and its client libraries and CLIs. This section does not cover ways you can protect your Redpanda cluster externally; for example, through network ACLs or private networks.