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 7.8 releases.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.8.0 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.8.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.8.0.

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

Role-based access control (RBAC) with mTLS authentication on new Confluent Platform clusters

You can configure RBAC using mTLS authentication on a new Confluent Platform cluster.

See RBAC with mTLS.

SASL/SCRAM authentication for KRaft enabled clusters

You can configure KRaft controllers with the SASL/SCRAM authentication for communicating with Kafka brokers.

See Configure SASL/SCRAM authentication.

Notable enhancements and updates

• Ubuntu 22, Alma Linux 8, and Alma Linux 9 support

  Confluent Ansible supports deploying Confluent Platform on Ubuntu 22, Alma Linux 8, and Alma Linux 9.

  See Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.

Notable fixes

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

Upgrade consideration

You can use Confluent Ansible to upgrade Confluent Platform to 7.8 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.