docs: GCP IAM Auth Documentation (#51)

Author: Muchembi

configuration/authentication/gcp-iam.md

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+---
+description: How to configure Google Cloud IAM Authentication
+---
+
+# 📘 Google Cloud IAM
+
+---
+### Introduction
+Google Cloud Platform offers for a [Managed Service for Apache Kafka](https://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/overview).
+
+Kafbat UI comes with a built-in [GCP Auth library](https://github.com/googleapis/managedkafka) library for authentication.
+
+It implements auth using an OAuth Callback Handler that takes advantage of the [Application Default Credentials (ADC)](https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/application-default-credentials) to authenticate to the Kafka cluster.
+
+---
+### ⚙️ Pre-requisites
+1. A Managed Service for Apache Kafka instance
+2. A Google IAM service account with the following permissions:
+    - `roles/kafka.client`
+    - `roles/kafka.producer`
+    - `roles/kafka.consumer`
+    - `roles/kafka.admin`
+    - `roles/kafka.viewer`
+3. The respective service account JSON file
+
+---
+### 🛠️ Configuration Examples
+This section will cover some KafkaUI methods.
+
+> 📝 **NOTE**
+>>**This only works within the same VPC subnet as the kafka cluster as a limitation of the service.**
+
+#### 🐳 Docker
+You will need to mount the Service Account JSON file into the deployment.
+
+You will then use the following variables in your Docker deployment:
+```bash
+   GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service-account-json/application_default_credentials.json
+   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_NAME=gmsk-local
+   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_BOOTSTRAPSERVERS=<KAFKA_URL_FROM_YOUR_MANAGED_CLUSTER>
+   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_PROPERTIES_SECURITY_PROTOCOL=SASL_SSL
+   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_PROPERTIES_SASL_MECHANISM=OAUTHBEARER
+   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_PROPERTIES_SASL_CLIENT_CALLBACK_HANDLER_CLASS='com.google.cloud.hosted.kafka.auth.GcpLoginCallbackHandler'
+   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_PROPERTIES_SASL_JAAS_CONFIG='org.apache.kafka.common.security.oauthbearer.OAuthBearerLoginModule required;'
+```
+
+- Your Kafka URL would look something like this: `bootstrap.CLUSTER_ID.us-central1.managedkafka.PROJECT_ID.cloud.goog:9092`
+- Replace `/path/to/service-account-json/application_default_credentials.json` with the location of your mounted Service Account JSON file.
+
+
+#### 🌱 Configuring by application.yaml
+Set up the following configurations to connect to the cluster.
+
+```yaml
+kafka:
+  clusters:
+    - name: gmsk-local
+      bootstrapServers: <KAFKA_URL_FROM_YOUR_MANAGED_CLUSTER>
+      properties:
+        security.protocol: SASL_SSL
+        sasl.mechanism: OAUTHBEARER
+        sasl.client.callback.handler.class: com.google.cloud.hosted.kafka.auth.GcpLoginCallbackHandler
+        sasl.jaas.config: org.apache.kafka.common.security.oauthbearer.OAuthBearerLoginModule required;
+```