Istio Kafka Wire protocol Support

Networking
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Hi Team,

I am new to Istio, We are planning to use Istio as SSL Service Mesh, For Kafka in a K8S environment.

I would like to check does Istio support Kafka Wire protocol communication.

Regards,
Ksampath

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Hi, here is this of supported protocol:
https://istio.io/about/feature-stages/#traffic-management .

3

This would need to be covered by envoy and that task is still outstanding albeit underway, for more details see https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/2852 and the WIP PR https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/4950.

Kev

4

Not yet, but it is being worked on:

5

Has anyone tried deploying kafka and zookeeper inside kubernetes with istio enable?

6

Any guidance on this topic? I’ve been doing some research and I cannot really conclude whether it is possible to run Kafka on top of Istio with mTLS.