LDAP/LDAPS authentication with Microsoft Active Directory

Is your proposal related to a problem?

LDAP/LDAPS authentication with Microsoft Active Directory seems not yet supported by Kafka-UI.

Describe the solution you’d like

It would be nice if Kafka-UI also support LDAP and LDAPS authentications with Microsoft Active Directory. According to the Spring documentation this is supported by the framework (but maybe will require one or more extra options).

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

No alternatives available.

Additional context

Our Kafka-UI service resides in a Kubernetes cluster and has been deployed by the official helm chart (v0.3.2). The configuration for LDAP we use is the following one (modulo server and domain names, that have been obfuscated):

kafka-ui:
  envs:
    config:
      AUTH_TYPE: "LDAP"
      SPRING_LDAP_URLS: "ldaps://ad01.domain.com:636"
      SPRING_LDAP_DN_PATTERN: "OU=people,DC=ad,DC=domain,DC=com"

The login windows reappears in a loop when I enter the credentials and no messages are printed in the pod’s logs. I think it would also be useful to see something logged in case of user logins in the Kafka-UI interface.

This issue has been briefly discussed with @Haarolean on the Kafka-UI discord channel.