All the topics are created prior to starting any components. However with the ACL setup nothing gets written to the topic.
The only errors I see in the kafka-authorizer.log is
[2017-07-06 12:26:21,682] DEBUG Principal = User:CN=
localhost.connect.com,OU=Tech,O=Pieces Tech,L=Dallas,ST=TX,C=US is Denied Operation = Describe from host = 127.0.0.1 on resource = Topic:ds_FlowsheetResult-pieces2-thr (kafka.authorizer.logger)
And in the connect console
[2017-07-06 12:26:23,874] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2500 : {ds_FlowsheetResult-pieces2-thr=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient:707)
[2017-07-06 12:26:23,925] ERROR Failed to flush WorkerSourceTask{id=ds_FlowsheetResult-pieces2-thr-0}, timed out while waiting for producer to flush outstanding 1 messages (org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask:304)
[2017-07-06 12:26:23,925] ERROR Failed to commit offsets for WorkerSourceTask{id=ds_FlowsheetResult-pieces2-thr-0} (org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.SourceTaskOffsetCommitter:112)
[2017-07-06 12:26:23,979] WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2501 : {ds_FlowsheetResult-pieces2-thr=UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient:707)
Just to give a little background on the local setup.
I have the Kafka Broker & Schema Registry with Owner: CN=localhost, OU=Tech, O=Pieces Tech, L=Dallas, ST=TX, C=US
Below is the SSL / ACL config in server.properties
############################# SSL Configs #############################
ssl.keystore.location=/Users/binoy.thomas/keystores/kafka.server.keystore.jks
ssl.keystore.password=password
ssl.key.password=password
#ssl.truststore.location=/Users/binoy.thomas/truststores/kafka.server.truststore.jks
ssl.truststore.location=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/security/cacerts
#ssl.truststore.password=password
ssl.truststore.password=changeit
ssl.client.auth=required
security.inter.broker.protocol=SSL
# enable hostname verification
#ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm=HTTPS
ssl.enabled.protocols=TLSv1.2,TLSv1.1,TLSv1
############################# ACL Configs #############################
#allow.everyone.if.no.acl.found=true
super.users=User:CN=localhost,OU=Tech,O=Pieces Tech,L=Dallas,ST=TX,C=US
#####################################################################
ACL created for the brokers and sort of inherited by the Schema Registry as they have the same CN is below
/usr/local/kafka/bin/kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 --add --allow-principal User:CN=localhost,OU=Tech,O=Pieces Tech,L=Dallas,ST=TX,C=US --operation ALL --topic * --group * --cluster *
ACL for Kafka Connect