Confluent Platform Packages

You can use the platform packages to install the entire Confluent Platform, and use the component packages to install individual components.

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Platform packages

The platform packages include all Confluent Platform packages.

confluent-platform

confluent-8.2.0 provides the complete Confluent Platform, including all community and commercial component packages. This package contains confluent-server, version 8.2.0 (8.2.0.ce). The server log file shows the following:

Kafka version: 8.2.0.ce

For Confluent Platform and Kafka compatibility, refer to Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka compatibility.

confluent-community

confluent-community-8.2.0 contains the Confluent Community component packages. This package contains confluent-kafka, version 8.2.0 (8.2.0.ccs). The broker log file shows the following:

Kafka version: 8.2.0-ccs.

Component packages

You can install the component packages using an APT or YUM repository. Use these packages only when you need a single component on your server, for example, on production servers.

avro

C/C++ Avro serialization library. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

• DEB packages

  Package name	Description
  libavro-c-dev	C development headers and library.
  libavro-c1	C library and source.
  libavro-cpp-dev	C++ development headers and library.
  libavro-cpp1	C++ library and source.

• RPM packages

  Important

  RHEL 9 and later: Avro RPM packages are not available for RHEL 9 and later versions. Confluent no longer provides pre-packaged RPM deliverables for Avro libraries. Instead, integrate these libraries directly into your projects using CMake. Refer to the libschemaregistry repository for CMake integration instructions.

  RHEL 8 and earlier only:

  RPM packages	Description
  avro-c-debuginfo	C debugging symbols.
  avro-c-devel	C development headers and library.
  avro-c-devel	C development headers and library.
  avro-c-tools	Command line tools.
  avro-c	C library and source.
  avro-cpp-debuginfo	C++ debugging symbols.
  avro-cpp-devel	C++ development headers and library.
  avro-cpp	C++ library and source.

• Source packages - included in ZIP and TAR archives under src/ directory.

confluent-control-center

A web-based tool for managing and monitoring Kafka. For more information, refer to the Control Center. This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-kafka

The confluent-kafka package includes Kafka, Kafka Streams, the Kafka Connect framework, and the Kafka Java client. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-kafka-connect-replicator

Multi-Datacenter Replication. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-kafka-dotnet

.NET client library. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

• Code repository – available on NuGet

• Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under src/ directory

confluent-kafka-javascript

JavaScript client library. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

• Code repository – available on NPM

• Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under src/ directory

confluent-kafka-go

Go client library. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

• Code repository – available on GitHub

• Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under src/ directory

confluent-kafka-python

Python client library. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

• Python package – available on PyPI

• Source packages – included in ZIP and TAR archives under src/ directory

confluent-kafka-rest

HTTP REST Proxy for Kafka. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-ksqldb

ksqlDB is a streaming SQL engine for Kafka. ksqlDB is included with Confluent Cloud and the Confluent Platform installation.

For more information, refer to the Install and Configure ksqlDB for Confluent Platform. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-rebalancer

The confluent-rebalancer package automatically balances data and partitions between brokers in an Kafka cluster. For more information, refer to the documentation. This is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-schema-registry

Schema Registry is a RESTful schema registry service for managing Avro schemas. For more information, refer to the Schema Registry Documentation. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-security

Kafka security plugins. For more information, refer to Schema Registry Security Plugin for Confluent Platform and REST Proxy Security Plugins in Confluent Platform. This is a community component of Confluent Platform.

confluent-server

Confluent Server is a component of Confluent Platform that includes Kafka and additional commercial features. Key features in Confluent Server include:

• Role-based access control (RBAC)

• Tiered Storage

• Self-Balancing Clusters

• Confluent for Kubernetes

Confluent Server is fully compatible with Kafka, and you can migrate in place between Kafka and Confluent Server.

Confluent Server is a commercial component of Confluent Platform.

librdkafka

The C/C++ Kafka client. For more information, refer to the librdkafka GitHub documentation.

• DEB packages

  Package name	Description
  librdkafka-dev	Development headers and library
  librdkafka1-dbg	Debugging symbols
  librdkafka1	Library

• RPM packages

  Package name	Description
  librdkafka-devel	Development headers and library
  librdkafka1-debuginfo	Debugging symbols
  librdkafka1	Library
  librdkafka	Source RPM

• Source packages - included in ZIP and TAR archives under src/ directory.