Manually managing Kafka topics and ACLs is error-prone, time-consuming, and not scalable.

💡 What if you could declaratively define all your Kafka resources and permissions, just like code?

Introducing Kafka-ACL-Manager — a lightweight Java tool that brings infrastructure-as-code principles to your Kafka access management.

👉 GitHub: github.com/severinmbekou/Kafka-ACL-Manager

⚙️ What does it do?

Kafka-ACL-Manager lets you:

✅ Create or update Kafka topics from a YAML file
✅ Apply fine-grained ACLs to topics based on declarative permissions
✅ Delete obsolete topics and ACLs not present in the configuration
✅ Generate detailed logs for each execution
✅ Externalize sensitive config via .properties and environment variables

🔧 How to Use It

 java -jar kafka-acl-manager.jar \
 --config=conf/admin-client.properties \
 --resources=conf/kafka-resources.yml

admin-client.properties: Kafka client and security config (bootstrap servers, SASL, etc.)

kafka-resources.yml: declarative definition of topics and ACL

📦 Ideal For:

• CI/CD pipelines that provision Kafka environments

• DevSecOps & Platform Engineering teams

• Automating Kafka onboarding and access control

• Avoiding CLI/manual drift across environments
  
  
  

• topics:
  - name: example-topic
  partitions: 3
  replicationFactor: 2

  acls:
  - topic: example-topic
  permissions:
  - principal: User:alice
  operation: READ
  permission: ALLOW
  - principal: User:bob
  operation: WRITE
  permission: ALLOW
  
  

  🧠 Why it matters?

  Managing Kafka security manually is outdated. Kafka-ACL-Manager helps you adopt declarative access control and automated topic governance.

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  📍 Project & Contributions

  GitHub → https://github.com/severinmbekou/Kafka-ACL-Manager
  ⭐ If you find it useful, star the repo and share your feedback. PRs are welcome!

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