Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform

Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform offers a simple way to configure and deploy Confluent Platform. The topics in this section describe using Ansible Playbooks to install Confluent Platform.

The topics assume basic knowledge of how Ansible playbooks work. If you want to learn more about Ansible playbooks, see these resources:

• How to Build Ansible Inventory
• Ansible Essentials On-Demand Webinar (Red Hat)

The Ansible playbooks provided by Confluent perform the following operations:

• Installs Confluent Platform using packages or archives.
• Starts services using systemd scripts.
• Provides variables for configuring security settings for Confluent Platform.
• Provides options for monitoring Confluent Platform.

You can install the services listed below using the Ansible playbooks provided by Confluent:

• Apache ZooKeeper™
• Apache Kafka®
• Confluent Schema Registry
• REST Proxy
• Confluent Control Center
• Kafka Connect (distributed mode)
• ksqlDB
• Confluent Replicator

The cp-ansible repository provides the playbooks and templates that allow you to easily provision the Confluent Platform in your environment.

Support

For those with a Confluent Support contract, issues or feature requests can be reported to Confluent Support.

For those without a Confluent Support contract, report issues at cp-ansible GitHub repo. Review and follow How to Contribute if you want to contribute to the project.

Suggested resources

• Learn more about Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform in The Easiest Way to Install Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform using Ansible.
• Listen to the podcast Installing Apache Kafka with Ansible.
• Continuous Deployment of Confluent with Ansible Tower.

Next step

Prerequisites for Installing Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.