Get temporary Kafka credentials¶

Use the nais-cli to get temporary credentials for Kafka. This is useful for debugging, running kafka-consumer-groups.sh, or connecting from outside Nais.

nais kafka credentials \
    --team <team> \
    --environment <environment> \
    --ttl <duration>

where

<team> is the name of the team.
<environment> is the environment where Kafka runs (e.g. dev, prod).
<duration> is how long the credentials should be valid (e.g. 1d, 7d, max 30d).

The default output format is environment variables. Use --output to change format:

Format	Description
`env`	Environment variables (default)
`kcat`	Configuration file for kcat
`java`	Java properties file for `kafka-console-consumer.sh` and similar tools

The kcat and java formats write configuration files to a temporary directory and print the path.

The credentials expire automatically when the TTL runs out. To get fresh credentials, simply run the command again.