# Kafka Consumer Error: confluent cloud

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-consumer-error-confluent-cloud/6834>\
**Category:** Clients\
**Created:** [15 December 2022 13:00 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-consumer-error-confluent-cloud/6834 "2022-12-15T13:00:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![faizan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@faizan](https://forum.confluent.io/u/faizan)\
**Post date:** [15 December 2022 13:00 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-consumer-error-confluent-cloud/6834/1 "2022-12-15T13:00:49Z")

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Hello All!

We have been using confluent cloud for almost 2 years. Recently we start getting the following error on preview environment and on local environment (only for some devs)  
`Kafka Consumer Error:Error: ssl error`  
while staging and production is running smoothly  
following our my different config files

- dockerfile

```auto
FROM node:14-alpine
RUN apk --no-cache add \
    bash \
    g++ \
    ca-certificates \
    lz4-dev \
    musl-dev \
    cyrus-sasl-dev \
    openssl-dev \
    make \
    python3
RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps gcc zlib-dev libc-dev bsd-compat-headers py-setuptools
WORKDIR /usr/app
COPY package.json .
RUN yarn install
COPY . .

```

- using consumer and producer as follow in my js files  
’

```auto
client.id': client,
'bootstrap.servers': process.env.KAFKA_HOST,
'sasl.username': process.env.KAFKA_USER_NAME,
'sasl.password': process.env.KAFKA_PASSWORD,
'security.protocol': 'SASL_SSL',
'sasl.mechanisms': 'PLAIN',
'group.id': group,

```

and my package.json file contain the following package:

```auto
"node-rdkafka": "^2.10.1"

```

Thanks in advance!