Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform Release Notes

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

The following sections summarize the technical details of the Confluent Ansible 7.7 releases.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.7.6 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.6 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.6. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

Notable fixes

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

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.7.5 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.5 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.5. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

Notable enhancements

• Added configurations to enable Jolokia Access Control.

  See Jolokia access control.

Notable fixes

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

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.7.4 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.4 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.4. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

Notable enhancements

• JMX Exporter is upgraded to 0.20.0.

Notable fixes

• Resolved an issue where component restart was not triggered after adding IdP certificates to the truststore.

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

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.7.3 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.3 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.3. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

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 7.7.2 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.2 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.2. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

Notable fixes

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

• Improved error handling in connector deployments.

• A number of internal issues were resolved.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.7.1 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.1 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.1. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

Notable fixes

• A number of internal issues were resolved, including critical security and vulnerability issues.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.7.0 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.7.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.7.0. It supports Ansible versions 7.x to 9.x and Python versions 3.9+. The recommended Ansible versions are 9.x.

New features and enhancements

OAuth 2.0 support

Support for OIDC (OpenID Connect) Authentication and Open Authorization (OAuth) 2.0 Authorization has been added for Apache Kafka®, KRaft, REST Proxy, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Confluent Control Center (Legacy), and Confluent CLI.

See OAuth for Confluent Platform.

OAuth migration

You can configure OAuth on existing LDAP Confluent Platform clusters, specifically, Kafka, MDS, KRaft, Control Center (Legacy), REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Connect to migrate from using LDAP authentication/authorization to OIDC authentication and OAuth authorization.

See Migrate from LDAP to OAuth.

Amazon Linux 2023 support

Confluent Ansible supports deploying Confluent Platform on Amazon Linux 2023.

See Operating Systems requirements.

Debian 12 support

Confluent Ansible supports deploying Confluent Platform on Debian 12.

See Operating Systems requirements.

Ansible 8.x and 9.x

Confluent Ansible is supported with Ansible 8.x and 9.x (Ansible core 2.15 and 2.16).

See Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.

Notable enhancements and updates

• Confluent Ansible now has the capability to add identify provider’s self-signed certificate to the MDS truststore for SSO in Control Center (Legacy).

• Confluent Ansible added a new tag, pip-package, for installing all pip packages.

Notable fixes

• A number of internal issues were resolved, including critical security and vulnerability issues.

Upgrade consideration

You can use Confluent Ansible to upgrade Confluent Platform to 7.7 with Ansible versions 7.x - 9.x (ansible-core versions 2.14 - 2.16).

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