Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform Release Notes

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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.

[30 October, 2026] Confluent Ansible 8.4.0 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 8.4.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 8.4.0.

Breaking changes

confluent_package_version is now required. Confluent Ansible no longer ships a default Confluent Platform version. Before you upgrade, set confluent_package_version in your inventory to the Confluent Platform version you want to install. If it is not set, the playbooks fail early. For configuration steps, see Set the Confluent Platform version. For supported versions, see Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.

New features

Adds support for the KRaft dynamic controller quorum (KIP-853). You can deploy new clusters with a dynamic quorum, migrate existing static-quorum clusters to a dynamic quorum, and add or replace controllers without rebuilding the cluster. For more information, see Configure KRaft Dynamic Controller Quorum using Ansible Playbooks.
Adds support for bring your own Prometheus (BYOP) for Control Center. You can configure Control Center to use your own externally managed Prometheus instance instead of the bundled Prometheus and Alertmanager. For configuration steps, see Bring your own Prometheus (BYOP).
Control Center now collects Kafka producer and consumer client metrics by default.

Enhancements

Upgrades the Prometheus JMX Exporter agent from 1.0.1 to 1.6.0. Versions 1.1.0 and later are downloaded from GitHub Releases instead of Maven Central.
Adds the control_center_next_gen_dependency_alertmanager_web_external_url variable to specify the external URL that the Control Center bundled Alertmanager is hosted behind, so that the View Alert links work properly. For configuration details, see Configure Control Center.

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.