Confluent Control Center Upgrade

This topic offers instructions for upgrading Control Center.

Considerations:

  • Control Center (Legacy) refers to the version of Control Center that ships with Confluent Platform 7.9 and earlier.

  • Control Center refers to the version of Control Center that ships as a standalone product and starts at version 2.0.

  • Upgrade from Control Center (Legacy) to Control Center is not supported. You must migrate from Control Center (Legacy) to Control Center. For more information, see Migration.

  • Before you start an upgrade, check the latest system requirements. For more information, see: Control Center System Requirements and Compatibility

Upgrading Control Center

You can upgrade Control Center without having to upgrade Confluent Platform. To ensure you have access to the latest security fixes and features, upgrade to the latest Control Center release every quarter.

Supported upgrades

  • Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform

  • Confluent for Kubernetes

  • Manual

Confluent Ansible

To upgrade Control Center with Confluent Ansible, set the package version for upgrading to the latest version as follows:

confluent_control_center_next_gen_package_version:<release-version>

For example, to upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0, the release-version should be set to 2.1.0:

confluent_control_center_next_gen_package_version: 2.1.0

For more information, see Configure Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform.

Confluent for Kubernetes

To upgrade Control Center with Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK), update the image tag in ControlCenter CRD manifest yaml:

confluentinc/cp-enterprise-control-center-next-gen:<release-version>

For example, to upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0, the release-version should be set to 2.1.0:

confluentinc/cp-enterprise-control-center-next-gen: 2.1.0

For more information, see Monitor Confluent Platform in Confluent for Kubernetes.

Manual

To upgrade Control Center manually, use the following command:

yum install confluent-control-center@<release-version>

apt-get install confluent-control-center@<release-version>

For example, to upgrade from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0, the release-version should be set to 2.1.0:

yum install confluent-control-center@2.1.0

apt-get install confluent-control-center@2.1.0