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 8.2 releases.
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.
- 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.