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 7.6 releases.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.6.1 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.6.1 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.6.1. It supports Ansible versions 4.x to 7.x and Python versions 3.6+. The recommended Ansible versions are 7.x.

Notable fixes

  • Connect and ksqlDB clusters are now correctly registered in MDS even when Confluent Platform components are co-located.
  • 3.55.0 is the default Confluent CLI version that is installed with Confluent Ansible.
  • Critical security and vulnerability issues were fixed.

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform 7.6.0 Release Notes

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) 7.6.0 allows you to deploy Confluent Platform version 7.6.0. It supports Ansible versions 4.x to 7.x and Python versions 3.6+. The recommended Ansible versions are 7.x.

New features and enhancements

Migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft

You can use Confluent Ansible to perform an in-place upgrade from ZooKeeper to KRaft.

Currently, migration is not recommended for production Confluent clusters.

See Migrate a Zookeeper-based cluster to KRaft.

ARM 64 for production deployments

Confluent Ansible supports deploying Confluent Platform on ARM 64 architecture in production.

See Hardware requirements.

Rocky Linux support

Confluent Ansible supports deploying Confluent Platform on Rocky Linux 8 and Rocky Linux 9.

See Operating Systems requirements.

Confluent Ansible Discovery GitHub repository change

The Confluent Ansible Discovery tool was moved to its own GitHub repository at https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-discovery and is no longer in the Confluent Ansible repository at https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-ansible.

See Migrate Standalone Confluent Platform to Ansible Environment.

Confluent connectors with RBAC and mTLS

Confluent Ansible supports deploying connectors on clusters with RBAC or mTLS configured.

See Configure Kafka connectors on an RBAC-enabled cluster.

Notable fixes

  • Confluent Ansible now supports configuring a custom port for the KRaft controllers.

    For setting up a custom port for KRaft, a new variable, kafka_controller_port, was introduced. 9093 is the default value.

Upgrade consideration

You can use Confluent Ansible to upgrade Confluent Platform to 7.6 with Ansible versions 4 - 7 (ansible-core versions 2.11 - 2.14).

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