Using a kerberos secured Kafka as buffer between Jaeger and Elasticsearch

[awiradarma]

Requirement - what kind of business use case are you trying to solve?

We want to store our jaeger spans in ElasticSearch, but we want to use Kafka as a buffer in between jaeger collector and our ES cluster. We would still want the Jaeger UI to query against our ES cluster. Our production Kafka clusters are Kerberos secured.

Problem - what in Jaeger blocks you from solving the requirement?

Jaeger does not provide a mechanism to connect to a Kerberos secured Kafka cluster.

Proposal - what do you suggest to solve the problem or improve the existing situation?

Any open questions to address

[yurishkuro]

Don't know about Kerberos specifically, but sarama driver does expose the TLS configuration

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/Shopify/sarama/-/blob/config.go#L42