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 7.5.7 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.