Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) is continuously updated with new features and enhancements. This topic highlights the significant new and updated features, enhancements, bug fixes, and known limitations in each release.

For Confluent Platform and Confluent Ansible version compatibility, see Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.
To learn how to install Confluent Ansible and deploy Confluent Platform, see Download Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform and Install Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.

Note

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

August 13, 2026 Confluent Ansible 8.2.3 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 8.2.3 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 8.2.3.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in this release.

New features

There are no new features in this release.

Enhancements

This release adds protection against Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) found in Confluent Platform. For more information, see the Confluent Platform 8.2.3 release notes.

Bug fixes

There are no bug fixes in this release.

Known limitations

There are no known limitations in this release.

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.

June 23, 2026 Confluent Ansible 8.2.2 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 8.2.2 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 8.2.2.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in this release.

New features

Adds the capability to generate a support bundle for Confluent Ansible playbook runs. See Support bundle.

Enhancements

Adds validation of Confluent Platform package availability before installation. The playbook now fails early if the requested package version is not available in the configured repositories, before removing the existing packages.
Introduces a Confluent CLI v3.0.0 preflight assertion.

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue that caused the Kafka broker and Kafka controller to restart twice.
Fixed the issue with the security.properties copy task that failed to copy the file to the Ansible host.
Fixed kafka-storage format failures on KRaft clusters with secrets protection enabled. The master key is now passed to the format step using the CONFLUENT_SECURITY_MASTER_KEY environment variable.
Fixed custom certificate chain building for multi-tier and partial-chain PKI setups. Chains now assemble correctly for root and intermediate bundles, and for DoD-style partial chains.

Known limitations

There are no known limitations in this release.

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 8.2.0 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 8.2.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 8.2.0.

This release supports Ansible versions 9.x to 11.x and Python versions 3.10+. The recommended Ansible versions are 11.x.

New features

RHEL 10 support for Confluent Platform

You can now use Confluent Ansible to deploy Confluent Platform components on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 hosts.

See Operating systems.

FIPS 140-3–compliant Confluent Platform deployments

You can use Confluent Ansible to deploy Confluent Platform in FIPS 140-3 environments.

See Enable FIPS in Confluent Platform.

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) connection support

Confluent Ansible now supports using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to establish connections to managed nodes.

Notable enhancements

The Unified Stream Manager Schema Registry automation workflow has been optimized for improved performance.

Notable fixes

Fixed an issue where pipefail caused failures when extracting distinguished names from keystores in mTLS setups.
For the list of security and vulnerability issues fixed in this release, see Security Advisories and Security Release Notes.