Support for Kafka-native ACLs in Aiven for Apache Kafka®

Aiven for Apache Kafka now supports both Kafka-native ACLs and Aiven ACLs, providing enhanced access control capabilities.

• Kafka-native ACLs: Enable fine-grained control for Clusters, Topics, Groups, and TransactionalId resources, with support for ALLOW and DENY rules.
• Aiven ACLs: Simplify access control with predefined permissions and wildcard support for flexible configuration.

Kafka-native ACLs can be used in parallel with Aiven ACLs, with no requirement to migrate or choose one over the other. If only Kafka-native ACLs are needed, Aiven ACLs can be removed from the service. Both ACL types are configurable through the Aiven Console, Aiven CLI, Aiven API, and Aiven Provider for Terraform. To use Kafka-native ACLs, apply the required service maintenance updates.

To learn more, see Access Control Lists in Aiven for Apache Kafka®.