Kafka ssl helm chart issue

Subject of the issue

mtls and tls not working for kafka helm chart for internal communication

Your environment

  • RHEL
  • Kubernetes
  • Bitnami kafka helm chart

Steps to reproduce

clientProtocol: plaintext # if we change to mtls its not working showing ssl handshake error

Note: empty by default for backwards compatibility reasons, find more information at

[bitnami/kafka] Add external clients setting by stefan-jonasson · Pull Request #8902 · bitnami/charts · GitHub

externalClientProtocol: mtls
interBrokerProtocol: plaintext #if we change to mtls its not working showing ssl handshake error

Expected behaviour

While creating topic its should not show any error and has connection with zookeeper or alertmanager helm chart with mtls or tls

Actual behaviour

Showing ssl handshake error

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