Partner Zones, Terraform provider, and crypto shredding

Share Kafka data with partners without duplication

Partner Zones create isolated environments where external partners access selected Kafka topics. No topic replication or additional clusters required.

Create a Partner Zone in under 60 seconds:

1. Name the zone, select a service account, and choose a Gateway
2. Select topics and set permissions (read/write)
3. Configure throughput and bandwidth limits
4. Share credentials with your partner

Learn more in this blog post.

Deploy Conduktor configuration with Terraform

The Conduktor Terraform provider provisions users, groups, permissions, and policies. Deploy Conduktor alongside your infrastructure, reduce configuration drift, and automate access control updates.

Self-service resources are also supported through Terraform: delegate topic creation to application teams with guardrails in place.

Delete encrypted data by deleting keys

Crypto shredding makes encrypted data permanently unreadable by deleting the encryption key. This provides GDPR compliance for data deletion requests without expensive per-message deletion.

Conduktor's approach stores user keys in Kafka, making them easy to delete when a deletion request arrives.

Learn more in this blog post.

For a full list of changes, read the complete release notes.