1. What is the nature and description of the request?

For customers that use Kerberos we need to support GSSAPI for Kafka Source Plugin.

1. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

• Enterprise requirement to use Kerberos
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2. How would you like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements
here)

The aiokafka source plugin that we use supports gssapi but it requires other python packages gssapi and kerberos to be installed in our DE's.

We would have to test this setup

Enhance the kafka source plugin to include GSSAPI parameters

• sasl_kerberos_service_name
• sasl_kerberos_domain_name

Please refer to the attached document for a sample sequence diagram

1. List any affected known dependencies: Doc, UI etc..

Product / engineering teams to determine

1. Github Link if any

• aiokafka with gssapi