KIP-801 — Implement an Authorizer that stores metadata in __cluster_metadata
Accepted Kafka 3.2 SecurityKRaft
Introduces `StandardAuthorizer`, a new built-in KRaft-native authorizer that stores ACLs in the `__cluster_metadata` topic instead of ZooKeeper. In KRaft mode the existing `AclAuthorizer` still required a ZooKeeper instance, which defeated the goal of removing ZooKeeper entirely.
Protocol Impact
Details
| Author | Colin McCabe |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 3.2 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-13646 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2021-11-23 |
| Last Modified | 2022-02-04 |
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