Apache Kafka Consumer client component. 
Static configuration example:
# yaml
        kafka-consumer:
            env_pod_name: "HOSTNAME"
            enable_auto_commit: false
            group_id: "test-group"
            auto_offset_reset: "smallest"
            security_protocol: "PLAINTEXT"
            topics:
              - "test-topic-send"
              - "test-topic-consume-1"
              - "test-topic-consume-2"
              - "test-topic-consume-produced-1"
              - "test-topic-consume-produced-2"
            max_batch_size: 10
Secdist format
A Kafka alias in secdist is described as a JSON object kafka_settings, containing credentials of Kafka brokers.
@pytest.fixture(scope='session')
def service_env():
    single_setting = {
        'brokers': os.getenv('KAFKA_RECIPE_BROKER_LIST'),
        'username': '',
        'password': '',
    }
    logging.info(f'Brokers are: {single_setting["brokers"]}')
 
    secdist_config = {
        'kafka_settings': {
            'kafka-consumer': single_setting,
            'kafka-producer-first': single_setting,
            'kafka-producer-second': single_setting,
        },
    }
 
    return {'SECDIST_CONFIG': json.dumps(secdist_config)}
Static options:
| Name    | Description    | Default value     | 
| group_id    | consumer group id    | –     | 
| topics    | list of topics consumer subscribes    | –     | 
| enable_auto_commit    | whether to automatically and periodically commit offsets    | false     | 
| auto_offset_reset    | action to take when there is no initial offset in offset store    | –     | 
| max_batch_size    | maximum batch size for one callback call    | –     | 
| env_pod_name    | environment variable to substitute {pod_name} substring in group_id    | none     | 
| security_protocol    | protocol used to communicate with brokers    | –     | 
| sasl_mechanisms    | SASL mechanism to use for authentication    | none     | 
| ssl_ca_location    | File or directory path to CA certificate(s) for verifying the broker's key    | 300000     | 
| topic_metadata_refresh_interval_ms    | period of time in milliseconds at which topic and broker metadata is refreshed    | 900000     | 
| metadata_max_age_ms    | metadata cache max age    | none    | 
Definition at line 53 of file consumer_component.hpp.