Status

Current state: Voting in progress Accepted

Discussion thread: here 

JIRA:

PR : https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4931

Released: 2.0.0

Motivation

Connect Framework offers REST API that is used to mange the lifecycle of the connector. Its imperative in most enterprises to secure the API and also add authorization to the end points. We could add the ability for authentication and authorization in the framework. But the security requirements are so broad that it's not practical to support all of them in the framework.  Hence we must provide ability for users to plug resources that help achieve the required capabilities.

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