Federico Valeri

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Federico Valeri

I'm a backend engineer mostly working on distributed systems, integration and data analysis. I care about a culture of respect and empathy, maintainable code and scalable architectures.

Areas of Expertise

Java, Integration, Messaging

Recent Posts

Build a simple cloud-native change data capture pipeline

Build a simple cloud-native change data capture pipeline

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By Federico Valeri

Change data capture (CDC) is a well-established software design pattern for a system that monitors and captures data changes so that other software can respond to those events. Using KafkaConnect, along with Debezium Connectors and the Apache Camel Kafka Connector, we can build a configuration-driven data pipeline to bridge traditional data stores and new event-driven architectures.

This article walks through a simple example.

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Set up Red Hat AMQ Streams custom certificates on OpenShift (update)

Set up Red Hat AMQ Streams custom certificates on OpenShift (update)

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By Federico Valeri

As anticipated in the “Additional notes” section of my previous article, starting from Red Hat AMQ Streams 1.4, it is finally possible to use your own custom certificate for encrypting communication between Kafka clients and brokers—without the requirement to provide a CA certificate. The auto-generated and -managed internal CAs will still remain, but only to protect inter-cluster communication.

The user-provided certificate can be used with all listeners that have TLS encryption enabled, such as the route, load balancer, ingress, and NodePort types. In this complete example, we will enable an external route listener for one-way TLS authentication.

Prerequisites

You need to have the following in place before you can proceed:

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Set up Red Hat AMQ Streams custom certificates on OpenShift

Set up Red Hat AMQ Streams custom certificates on OpenShift

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By Federico Valeri

Secure communication over a computer network is one of the most important requirements for a system, and yet it can be difficult to set up correctly. This example shows how to set up Red Hat AMQ Streams‘ end-to-end TLS encryption using a custom X.509 CA certificate on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Prerequisites

You need to have the following in place before you can proceed with this example:

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Set up Red Hat AMQ 7 custom certificates on OpenShift

Set up Red Hat AMQ 7 custom certificates on OpenShift

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By Federico Valeri

Secure communication over a computer network is one of the most important requirements for a system, and yet it can be difficult to set up correctly. This example shows how to set up Red Hat AMQ 7 end-to-end TLS encryption using a custom X.509 certificate on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Prerequisites

You need to have the following in place before you can proceed with this example:

  • An OpenShift cluster up and running.
  • A custom X.509 certificate in PEM format (along with its chain).
  • An active Red Hat Customer Portal account.

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