Please note that these playbooks are provided without support and are intended to be a guideline. Any issues encountered can be reported via the GitHub issues and will be addressed on a best effort basis. Pull requests are also encouraged.

Introduction

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
• Starts services using systemd scripts
• Provides configuration options for plaintext, SSL, and SASL_SSL communication amongst the services

The services that can be installed from this repository are:

• ZooKeeper
• Kafka
• Schema Registry
• REST Proxy
• Confluent Control Center
• Kafka Connect (distributed mode)

Documentation

You can find the documentation for running this playbook at https://docs.confluent.io/current/tutorials/cp-ansible/docs/index.html.

How to use

1. Install Zookeper & Kafka Brooker

• ansible-playbook -i local-hosts.yml local-zookeeper-kafka.yml -vvv

2. Check services are running

• systemctl status confluent-* -l

3. Install n Brokers

• ansible-playbook -i local-hosts.yml local-kafka.yml -vvv

4. Service will not start

• systemctl status confluent-* -l

5. Change Zookeeper & kafka configuration files in each new Broker

• ansible-playbook local-add-broker.yml --extra-vars "zookeeper_id=1 zookeeper_ip=<zookeeper_ip> brooker_counter=<1+n>" -vvv
• ansible-playbook local-add-broker.yml --extra-vars "zookeeper_id=1 zookeeper_ip=<zookeeper_ip> brooker_counter=<1+n>" -vvv
• etc...