SSL / TLS setup for ZooKeeper

We have a ZooKeeper server and a java client application that connects to it. SSL has appeared in ZooKeeper since version 3.5.: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2125 Server Tuning There are several types of ZooKeeper server distribution. We’ll cover the standalone version as well as the Apache Kafka version. We need a configured server for start. The setup process […]

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Cacerts file location

Linux & MacOS The cacerts file is a collection of trusted certificate authority (CA) certificates. It is located in the Java Runtime Environment distribution under the path: The extension is not specified in the file name, but the file is of JKS type. For this reason, in some cases, an explicit indication of the file type is […]

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SSL / TLS certificates generation

We have a server and a client. Connecting via SSL / TLS protocols, in addition to encrypting the transmitted data, implies the client’s confidence that he is connected to the server he wanted. To do this, the server needs to go through the authentication procedure (show the passport). This mechanism is called one-way SSL. There […]

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