diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/dmaap-bc/resources/config/dmaapbc.properties b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/dmaap-bc/resources/config/dmaapbc.properties
index dc9298d..bcfefe9 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/dmaap-bc/resources/config/dmaapbc.properties
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/dmaap-bc/resources/config/dmaapbc.properties
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@
 # MR topic ProjectID (used in certain topic name generation formats)
 MR.projectID:  mr
 
+# Use Basic Authentication when provisioning topics
+MR.authentication: basicAuth
+
 
 #####################################################
 #
diff --git a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/resources/mr_clusters/san-francisco.json b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/resources/mr_clusters/san-francisco.json
index 9e732d2..6c201f6 100644
--- a/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/resources/mr_clusters/san-francisco.json
+++ b/kubernetes/dmaap/components/message-router/resources/mr_clusters/san-francisco.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "dcaeLocationName": "san-francisco",
   "fqdn": "message-router",
-  "topicProtocol": "http",
-  "topicPort": "3904"
+  "topicProtocol": "https",
+  "topicPort": "3905"
 }