Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform Release Notes

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

The following sections summarize the technical details of the Confluent Ansible 7.5 releases.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.2 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.2 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.2. It supports Ansible 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable fixes

• Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.1 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.1 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.1. It supports Ansible 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

Notable enhancements

• Updated default Confluent CLI version to 3.30.1.
• Fixed bugs in Confluent Ansible Discovery to generate the inventory file with appropriate security protocols.
• Ansible builtin File mode is now string instead of octal.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.5.0 Release Notes

Confluent Ansible 7.5.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.5.0. It supports Ansible 2.11+ and Python 3.6+.

New features

• Confluent Ansible now enables FIPS in Confluent Platform on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9.

  For details, see Enable FIPS in Confluent Platform.

• You can configure single sign-on for Control Center using the Confluent Ansible.

  For the configuration steps, see Configure single sign-on authentication for Control Center.

Notable enhancements

• Added capability to discover multiple workers in the Connect cluster in Confluent Ansible Discovery.
• Added support to specify ansible_password in Confluent Ansible Discovery.

Upgrade consideration

You can use Confluent Ansible to upgrade Confluent Platform to 7.5 with Ansible versions 4 - 7 (ansible-core versions 2.11 - 2.14).

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