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Kafka-Connector: How to Configure access Using TLS in Mule 4

Publiceringsdatum: Jul 25, 2025
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Showing how to configure Kafka connector to access the broker using TLS.
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1. The following dependencies need to be included in the pom.xml file. They are added by Studio when you add the first connector.
  
    <dependencies>
...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.mulesoft.connectors</groupId>
            <artifactId>mule-kafka-connector</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.0</version>
            <classifier>mule-plugin</classifier>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

2. We need to define the Kafka configuration access, to establish connection with the Kafka broker. 

Example plain text configuration, for producer and consumer.
  
<kafka:producer-config name="Apache_Kafka_Producer_configuration" doc:name="Apache Kafka Producer configuration" doc:id="95194c1c-bbdd-4446-9196-6fbc6d42c440" topic="test">
        <kafka:producer-plaintext-connection >
            <kafka:bootstrap-servers >
                <kafka:bootstrap-server value="<server url>:9092" />
            </kafka:bootstrap-servers>
        </kafka:producer-plaintext-connection>
    </kafka:producer-config>
    
    
    <kafka:consumer-config name="Apache_Kafka_Consumer_configuration" doc:name="Apache Kafka Consumer configuration" doc:id="30061a79-c926-40e2-8b58-3ee360e788bb" >
        <kafka:consumer-plaintext-connection groupId="my-group" >
            <kafka:bootstrap-servers >
                <kafka:bootstrap-server value="<server url>t:9092" />
            </kafka:bootstrap-servers>
            <kafka:topic-patterns >
                <kafka:topic-pattern value="test" />
            </kafka:topic-patterns>
        </kafka:consumer-plaintext-connection>
    </kafka:consumer-config>

Example TSL Configuration. In this case additionally, the TLS Context is required for adding the Key Store and Trust Store references. The article here can be used as a reference for creating Key and Trust stores.
  
<kafka:producer-config name="APAC_Kafka_Producer_configuration" doc:name="Apache Kafka Producer configuration" doc:id="7b8abb6c-fba1-43e6-97f3-7018aa624835" topic="topic-secure">
        <kafka:producer-plaintext-connection endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="https" tlsContext="TLS_Context" >
            <kafka:bootstrap-servers >
                <kafka:bootstrap-server value="solares.gonfi.net:9093" />
            </kafka:bootstrap-servers>
        </kafka:producer-plaintext-connection>
    </kafka:producer-config>


    <kafka:consumer-config name="APAC_Kafka_Consumer_configuration" doc:name="Apache Kafka Consumer configuration" doc:id="3e1e4fe2-3aee-41f6-b99f-340ce8f49e4d" pollTimeout="250">
        <kafka:consumer-plaintext-connection groupId="my-group" tlsContext="TLS_Context" endpointIdentificationAlgorithm='#[""]' retryBackoffTimeout="1" requestTimeout="60" sessionTimeout="60" fetchMaximumWaitTimeout="1" fetchMaximumWaitTimeoutUnit="SECONDS" maximumPollingInterval="300" retryBackoffTimeoutTimeUnit="SECONDS" heartbeatInterval="10" autoOffsetReset="EARLIEST">
            <reconnection failsDeployment="true" >
                <reconnect-forever frequency="30000" />
            </reconnection>
            <kafka:bootstrap-servers >
                <kafka:bootstrap-server value="solares.gonfi.net:9093" />
            </kafka:bootstrap-servers>
            <kafka:topic-patterns >
                <kafka:topic-pattern value="topic-secure" />
            </kafka:topic-patterns>
        </kafka:consumer-plaintext-connection>
    </kafka:consumer-config>


    <tls:context name="TLS_Context" doc:name="TLS Context" doc:id="b7f5796e-79e4-49d1-a8ad-b3afba9853f6" >
        <tls:trust-store path="/Users/lsanchez/ssl2/kafka.client.truststore.jks" password="mule123" insecure="true"/>
        <tls:key-store path="/Users/lsanchez/ssl2/kafka.client.keystore.jks" keyPassword="mule123" password="mule123" type="jks"/>
    </tls:context>

In Cloudhub:  The SSL truststore file needs to be included in the application distribution. This is done by adding the file to the application's src/main/resources directory prior to building the deployable file. 
The path is /opt/mule/mule-CURRENT/apps/<app-name>/<truststore-name> , where app-name and truststore-name need to be replaced with the actual names of your application and your truststore file respectively. So the configuration will look something like the following:

<tls:trust-store  path="/opt/mule/mule-CURRENT/apps/<app-name>/kafka.client.truststore.jks" password="mule123" insecure="true"/>


3. Then for instance you can use any of the Kafka connectors for publishing or listening.
  
<kafka:publish doc:name="Producer" doc:id="760e8cd6-c4d5-41bf-bcd8-0690c86b1776" config-ref="Apache_Kafka_Producer_configuration" topic="#[payload.topic]" key="#[now()]">
            <kafka:message ><![CDATA[#[payload.message]]]></kafka:message>
        </kafka:publish>

        <kafka:message-listener doc:name="Message listener Secure" doc:id="b4bcab6c-e83d-4bf6-a258-46fab0a8950a" config-ref="APAC_Kafka_Consumer_configuration" ackMode="AUTO"/>

        <kafka:message-listener doc:name="Message listener" doc:id="298c1a10-adf3-4ee9-8574-f3dcb381c628" config-ref="Apache_Kafka_Consumer_configuration" ackMode="MANUAL"/>

        <kafka:commit doc:name="Commit" doc:id="265eb045-0e02-4cec-af73-873d6287e5a2" config-ref="Apache_Kafka_Consumer_configuration" commitKey="#[attributes.consumerCommitKey]"/>



 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

In order to see details on the logs related to this you can enable TRACE level to the following packages: 
<AsyncLogger name="com.mulesoft.connectors.kafka" level="TRACE"/> 
 		<AsyncLogger name="org.mule.modules.kafka" level="TRACE"/> 
		<ASyncLogger name="org.apache.kafka" level="TRACE"/>



 
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