Confluent Private Cloud Release Notes

The following sections summarize the technical details of the Confluent Private Cloud releases.

Confluent Private Cloud 8.1.0 Release Notes

Confluent Private Cloud 8.1.0 is the initial major release with the following noteworthy new features and updates.

Major features and highlights

Intelligent Replication

Intelligent Replication delivers up to 10x performance improvements for Kafka workloads at scale. This performance technology, previously available only in Confluent Cloud, is now available to self-managed Confluent Platform clusters through Confluent Private Cloud, enabling new levels of performance and scalability.

It includes two components:

  • A new replication implementation to complement Kafka’s existing replication implementation
  • An algorithm that monitors and intelligently switches between replication implementations to achieve performance while maintaining replica consistency

For details, see Intelligent Replication Overview.

Confluent Private Cloud Gateway

The release features the initial version of Confluent Private Cloud Gateway, designed to support secure, scalable, and seamless connectivity for private cloud deployments.

The Confluent Gateway is an Kafka protocol-aware proxy positioned between clients and clusters for stateless routing. It offers the following features:

  • Enables operational governance and seamless migrations (blue-green upgrades, disaster recovery switch-overs) without client modifications.
  • Facilitates secure external partner access with public endpoints for your Kafka clusters exposure, authentication swapping, and advanced traffic controls.
  • Supports customizable routing and streaming domains.
  • Automatable deployment by declarative APIs using CFK and Docker.

The Confluent Gateway documentation is available at Confluent Private Cloud Gateway.

Gateway deployment, route, and domain configuration samples are available at Confluent Gateway GitHub repository.