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:
Important
Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform cannot be used to upgrade software versions or change software
configuration for Confluent Platform deployments that were not initially installed with
Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform.
The Ansible playbooks provided by Confluent perform the following operations:
- Installs Confluent Platform packages.
- Starts services using
systemd scripts.
- Provides variables for configuring various security settings between Confluent Platform component services:
- TLS/SSL (one way and two way) with self-signed certs or custom certs
- SASL (Kerberos, PLAIN, SCRAM)
- Enables monitoring. With the exception of Confluent Control Center, installs all other Confluent Platform components with Jolokia enabled and metrics exposed.
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
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.