The TLS Server policy defines the certificates and keys used by the Event Gateway server when the client connects to the Gateway over TLS.

Note: Only one TLS Server policy can be active on a listener at a time.

Use cases

Common use cases for the TLS Server policy:

Use case

Description

Example: TLS connections Allow clients to connect to Event Gateway over TLS.
How-to: SNI routing with TLS Set up SNI routing to send traffic to multiple virtual clusters in the same Event Gateway control plane without opening more ports on the data plane.
How-to: mTLS client authentication Require Kafka clients to present a trusted certificate when connecting to Event Gateway using mutual TLS (mTLS).

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