Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) offers a simple way to configure and deploy Confluent Platform.

The following sections summarize the technical details of the Confluent Ansible 7.5 releases.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.12 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.12 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.12. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Enhanced security by masking potentially exposed sensitive secrets.

  • Fixed an issue related to ZooKeeper chroot creation.

  • Fixed idempotency on configuration files when using the secrets protection feature.

  • Added ability to override a list of loggers using the update_log4j task in the common role.

  • Made retries and delays in health checks configurable for users.

  • Introduced indexing and default rollover strategy for Log4j 2 file.

  • For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.11 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.11 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.11. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.10 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.10 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.10. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

Notable fixes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.9 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.9 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.9. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

  • Ansible 9.x is now supported.

Notable fixes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.8 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.8 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.8. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

  • Introduced a new variable rbac_super_users to specify additional super users for the cluster.

  • Removed KRaft controller and Kafka broker dependency on each other for fetching certificate principals in RBAC-enabled clusters with mTLS.

Notable fixes

  • Fixed an issue in the Set Permissions on Data Dir files task to avoid a race condition.

  • Changed the systemd service override directory permissions from 640 to 750.

  • For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.7 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.7 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.7. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Fixed the ownership of data directory files in KRaft controllers and Kafka brokers.

  • Improved error handling in connector deployments.

  • Internal issues were resolved.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.6 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.6 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.6. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Internal issues were resolved, including critical security and vulnerability issues.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.5 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.5 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.5. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Confluent Ansible uses the archived Debian10 repository since Debian 10 reached the end of life.

  • Internal issues were resolved, including critical security and vulnerability issues.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.4 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.4 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.4. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Confluent Ansible now supports configuring a custom port for the KRaft controllers.

    For setting up a custom port for KRaft, a new variable, kafka_controller_port, was introduced. 9093 is the default value.

  • Connect and ksqlDB clusters are now correctly registered in MDS even when Confluent Platform components are co-located.

  • 3.55.0 is the default Confluent CLI version that is installed with Confluent Ansible.

  • Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.3 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.3 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.3. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.2 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.2 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.2. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

  • Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.1 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.1 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.1. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

  • Updated default Confluent CLI version to 3.30.1.

  • Fixed bugs in Confluent Ansible Discovery to generate the inventory file with appropriate security protocols.

  • Ansible builtin File mode is now string instead of octal.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.0 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.0. It supports ansible-core 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

New features

Notable enhancements

  • Added capability to discover multiple workers in the Connect cluster in Confluent Ansible Discovery.

  • Added support to specify ansible_password in Confluent Ansible Discovery.

Upgrade consideration

You can use Confluent Ansible to upgrade Confluent Platform to 7.5 with Ansible versions 4 - 7 (ansible-core versions 2.11 - 2.14).

For more information, see Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.