Ansible provides a simple way to deploy, manage, and configure the Confluent Platform services. This repository provides playbooks and templates to easily spin up a Confluent Platform installation. Specifically this repository:
- Installs Confluent Platform packages or archive.
- Starts services using systemd scripts.
- Provides configuration options for many security options including encryption, authentication, and authorization.
The services that can be installed from this repository are:
- ZooKeeper
- Kraft Controller (or Kafka Controller)
- Kafka
- Schema Registry
- REST Proxy
- Confluent Control Center
- Kafka Connect (distributed mode)
- KSQL Server
- Replicator
Prerequisites for installing CP can be found at https://docs.confluent.io/ansible/current/ansible-requirements.html#general-requirements.
You can install this collection from Ansible Automation Hub and Ansible Galaxy by following https://docs.confluent.io/ansible/current/ansible-download.html.
As an alternative to the recommended methods above, you can install the package directly from the source repository.
-
Create a directory with the following structure:
mkdir -p <path_to_cp-ansible>/ansible_collections/confluent/You can put <path_to_cp-ansible> anywhere in your directory structure, but the directory structure under <path_to_cp-ansible> should be set up exactly as specified above.
-
Clone the Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform repo into the platform directory inside the directory you created in the previous step:
git clone https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-ansible <path_to_cp-ansible>/ansible_collections/confluent/platform
Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform (Confluent Ansible) offers a simplified way to configure and deploy Confluent Platform.
CP-Ansible's tests use the Molecule framework, and it is strongly advised to test this way before submitting a Pull Request. Please refer to the HOW_TO_TEST.md
If you would like to contribute to the CP-Ansible project, please refer to the CONTRIBUTE.md
For any support request, please reach out to Confluent Support Portal.
This page summarizes the technical details of the Confluent releases.