Justin, I'd be interested to learn specifically what security features you are interested in.
There is a doc on the wiki here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Security As well as the Umbrella JIRA Here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1682 Most security-related JIRAs have a component listed as security https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1882?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20component%20%3D%20security There is a quite a bit of plumbing work to be done in order for all of the security features to come together. There technically isn't a 0.9 branch at the moment, all of the development is being applied to trunk and since there isn't as of yet even a 0.8.3 branch, I don't think you'd be in a good spot trying to pull in a bunch of stuff that isn't complete. Just my 2 cents. Thanks Jeff On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Justin Randell <justin.rand...@acquia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We're assessing Kafka for use at Acquia. We run tens of thousands of > customer websites and many internal applications on ~9k AWS EC2 > instances. > > We're currently weighing the pros and cons of starting with 0.82 plus > custom security, or waiting until the security features land in 0.9. > > How likely is Kafka 0.9 to ship in April 2015? (As seen here - > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Future+release+plan.) > > How stable is the 0.9 branch? Is it crazy to consider running a 0.9 > beta in production? > > Are there any existing patch sets against 0.8x that implement security > features? > > thanks, > Justin > -- Jeff Holoman Systems Engineer
