Running a cluster of a distributed software such as Apache Kafka in a production environment will lead to operational concerns. One of these concerns is certainly security. Companies have varying guidelines and policies when it comes to security. This depends on various factors for example the type of application data that the system is processing or in which network infrastructure the system is running and what security concerns this zone implies on the servers that are running within.

Software development involves several tasks in building the development environment. In a typical web application scenario such as Liferay these tasks include: