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= TLS sidecar

Sidecar is a container which is running in a pod and serves an auxiliary purpose.
The purpose of the TLS sidecar is to encrypt or decrypt the communication between {ProductName} components and Zookeeper since Zookeeper does not support TLS encryption natively.
Zookeeper does not support TLS encryption natively.
Therefore {ProductName} uses the sidecar to add the TLS support.

The TLS sidecar is currrently being used in:

* Kafka brokers
* Zookeeper
* Entity Operator

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include::proc-configuring-tls-sidecar.adoc[leveloffset=+1]