Release Notes for AMQ Streams 1.5 on OpenShift
For use with AMQ Streams on OpenShift Container Platform
Abstract
Chapter 1. Features
AMQ Streams version 1.5 is based on Strimzi 0.18.x.
The features added in this release, and that were not in previous releases of AMQ Streams, are outlined below.
1.1. Kafka 2.5.0 support
AMQ Streams now supports Apache Kafka version 2.5.0.
AMQ Streams uses Kafka 2.5.0. Only Kafka distributions built by Red Hat are supported.
You must upgrade the Cluster Operator to AMQ Streams version 1.5 before you can upgrade brokers and client applications to Kafka 2.5.0. For upgrade instructions, see AMQ Streams and Kafka upgrades.
Refer to the Kafka 2.4.0 and Kafka 2.5.0 Release Notes for additional information.
Kafka 2.4.x is supported in AMQ Streams 1.5 only for upgrade purposes.
For more information on supported versions, see the Red Hat AMQ 7 Component Details Page on the Customer Portal.
1.2. ZooKeeper 3.5.8 support
Kafka version 2.5.0 requires ZooKeeper version 3.5.8.
You do not need to manually upgrade to ZooKeeper 3.5.8; the Cluster Operator performs the ZooKeeper upgrade when it upgrades Kafka brokers. However, you might notice some additional rolling updates during this procedure.
1.3. OpenShift 4.x disconnected installation
Support for disconnected installation on OpenShift 4.x moves out of Technology Preview to a generally available component of AMQ Streams.
You can perform a disconnected installation of AMQ Streams when your OpenShift cluster is being used as a disconnected cluster on a restricted network.
For a disconnected installation, you obtain the required images and push them to your container registry locally. If you are using the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) this means disabling the default sources used by the OperatorHub and creating local mirrors to install AMQ Streams from local sources.
See Using Operator Lifecycle Manager on restricted networks.
1.4. MirrorMaker 2.0
Support for MirrorMaker 2.0 moves out of Technology Preview to a generally available component of AMQ Streams.
MirrorMaker 2.0 is based on the Kafka Connect framework, with connectors managing the transfer of data between clusters.
MirrorMaker 2.0 uses:
- Source cluster configuration to consume data from the source cluster
- Target cluster configuration to output data to the target cluster
MirrorMaker 2.0 introduces an entirely new way of replicating data in clusters. If you choose to use MirrorMaker 2.0, there is currently no legacy support, so any resources must be manually converted into the new format.
1.5. Debezium for change data capture integration
Red Hat Debezium is a distributed change data capture platform. It captures row-level changes in databases, creates change event records, and streams the records to Kafka topics. Debezium is built on Apache Kafka. You can deploy and integrate Debezium with AMQ Streams. Following a deployment of AMQ Streams, you deploy Debezium as a connector configuration through Kafka Connect. Debezium passes change event records to AMQ Streams on OpenShift. Applications can read these change event streams and access the change events in the order in which they occurred.
Debezium has multiple uses, including:
- Data replication
- Updating caches and search indexes
- Simplifying monolithic applications
- Data integration
- Enabling streaming queries
Debezium provides connectors (based on Kafka Connect) for the following common databases:
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
For more information on deploying Debezium with AMQ Streams, refer to the product documentation.
1.6. Service Registry
You can use Service Registry as a centralized store of service schemas for data streaming. For Kafka, you can use Service Registry to store Apache Avro or JSON schema.
Service Registry provides a REST API and a Java REST client to register and query the schemas from client applications through server-side endpoints.
Using Service Registry decouples the process of managing schemas from the configuration of client applications. You enable an application to use a schema from the registry by specifying its URL in the client code.
For example, the schemas to serialize and deserialize messages can be stored in the registry, which are then referenced from the applications that use them to ensure that the messages that they send and receive are compatible with those schemas.
Kafka client applications can push or pull their schemas from Service Registry at runtime.
Chapter 2. Enhancements
The enhancements added in this release are outlined below.
2.1. Kafka 2.5.0 enhancements
For an overview of the enhancements introduced with Kafka 2.5.0, refer to the Kafka 2.5.0 Release Notes.
2.2. ZooKeeper enhancements
Moving to support for ZooKeeper 3.5.* versions means that it is no longer necessary to use TLS sidecars in ZooKeeper pods. The sidecars were removed, and native ZooKeeper support for TLS is now used.
2.3. Expanded OAuth 2.0 authentication configuration options
New configuration options make it possible to integrate with a wider set of authorization servers.
Depending on how you apply OAuth 2.0 authentication, and the type of authorization server, there are additional (optional) configuration settings you can use.
Additional configuration options for Kafka brokers
# ... authentication: type: oauth # ... checkIssuer: false 1 fallbackUserNameClaim: client_id 2 fallbackUserNamePrefix: client-account- 3 validTokenType: bearer 4 userInfoEndpointUri: https://AUTH-SERVER-ADDRESS/auth/realms/external/protocol/openid-connect/userinfo 5
- 1
- If your authorization server does not provide an
iss
claim, it is not possible to perform an issuer check. In this situation, setcheckIssuer
tofalse
and do not specify avalidIssuerUri
. Default istrue
. - 2
- An authorization server may not provide a single attribute to identify both regular users and clients. A client authenticating in its own name might provide a client ID. But a user authenticating using a username and password, to obtain a refresh token or an access token, might provide a username attribute in addition to a client ID. Use this fallback option to specify the username claim (attribute) to use if a primary user ID attribute is not available.
- 3
- In situations where
fallbackUserNameClaim
is applicable, it may also be necessary to prevent name collisions between the values of the username claim, and those of the fallback username claim. Consider a situation where a client calledproducer
exists, but also a regular user calledproducer
exists. In order to differentiate between the two, you can use this property to add a prefix to the user ID of the client. - 4
- (Only applicable when using an introspection endpoint URI) Depending on the authorization server you are using, the introspection endpoint may or may not return the token type attribute, or it may contain different values. You can specify a valid token type value that the response from the introspection endpoint has to contain.
- 5
- (Only applicable when using an introspection endpoint URI) The authorization server may be configured or implemented in such a way to not provide any identifiable information in an Introspection Endpoint response. In order to obtain the user ID, you can configure the URI of the
userinfo
endpoint as a fallback. TheuserNameClaim
,fallbackUserNameClaim
, andfallbackUserNamePrefix
settings are applied to the response ofuserinfo
endpoint.
Additional configuration options for Kafka components
# ...
spec:
# ...
authentication:
# ...
disableTlsHostnameVerification: true
checkAccessTokenType: false
accessTokenIsJwt: false
scope: any 1
- 1
- The
scope
for requesting the token from the token endpoint. An authorization server may require a client to specify the scope.
See Configuring OAuth 2.0 support for Kafka brokers and Configuring OAuth 2.0 for Kafka components.
2.4. Metrics for the Cluster Operator, Topic Operator and User Operator
The Prometheus server is not supported as part of the AMQ Streams distribution. However, the Prometheus endpoint and JMX exporter used to expose the metrics are supported.
As well as monitoring Kafka components, you can now add metrics configuration to monitor the Cluster Operator, Topic Operator and User Operator.
An example Grafana dashboard is provided, which allows you to view the following operator metrics exposed by Prometheus:
- The number of custom resources being processed
- The number of reconciliations being processed
- JVM metrics
2.5. SSL configuration options
You can now run external listeners on specific ciphers for a TLS version.
For Kafka components running on AMQ Streams, you can use the three allowed ssl
configuration options to run external listeners with a specific cipher suite for a TLS version. A cipher suite combines algorithms for secure connection and data transfer.
The example here shows the configuration for a Kafka resource:
apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1 kind: Kafka metadata: name: my-cluster spec: # ... config: 1 # ... ssl.cipher.suites: "TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384" 2 ssl.enabled.protocols: "TLSv1.2" 3 ssl.protocol: "TLSv1.2" 4
2.6. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for Kafka Bridge
You can now enable and define access control for the Kafka Bridge through Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). CORS is a HTTP mechanism that allows browser access to selected resources from more than one origin. To configure CORS, you define a list of allowed resource origins and HTTP methods to access them. Additional HTTP headers in requests describe the origins that are permitted access to the Kafka cluster.
HTTP configuration for the Kafka Bridge
apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1alpha1 kind: KafkaBridge metadata: name: my-bridge spec: # ... http: port: 8080 cors: allowedOrigins: "https://strimzi.io" 1 allowedMethods: "GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS,PATCH" 2 # ...
Chapter 3. Technology previews
Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service-level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete; therefore, Red Hat does not recommend implementing any Technology Preview features in production environments. This Technology Preview feature provides early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling you to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. For more information about support scope, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope.
3.1. Cluster rebalancing with Cruise Control
This is a Technology Preview feature.
You can now deploy Cruise Control to your AMQ Streams cluster and use it to rebalance the Kafka cluster. Cruise Control helps to reduce the time and effort involved in running an efficient and balanced Kafka cluster.
Cruise Control is deployed as part of the configuration of a Kafka
resource. Example YAML configuration files for Cruise Control are provided in examples/cruise-control/
.
By deploying an instance of Cruise Control to each Kafka cluster, you can:
- Generate optimization proposals from multiple optimization goals
- Rebalance a Kafka cluster based on an optimization proposal
Other Cruise Control features are not currently supported, including anomaly detection, notifications, write-your-own goals, and changing the topic replication factor.
See Cruise Control.
There is a known issue related to setting user-provided optimization goals. See Chapter 6, Known issues.
3.2. OAuth 2.0 authorization
This is a Technology Preview feature.
If you are using OAuth 2.0 for token-based authentication, you can now also use OAuth 2.0 authorization rules to constrain client access to Kafka brokers.
AMQ Streams supports the use of OAuth 2.0 token-based authorization through Red Hat Single Sign-On Authorization Services, which allows you to manage security policies and permissions centrally.
Security policies and permissions defined in Red Hat Single Sign-On are used to grant access to resources on Kafka brokers. Users and clients are matched against policies that permit access to perform specific actions on Kafka brokers.
Chapter 4. Deprecated features
The features deprecated in this release, and that were supported in previous releases of AMQ Streams, are outlined below.
4.1. API versions
In the AMQ Streams 1.2 release, the v1alpha1
versions of the following resources were deprecated and replaced by v1beta1
:
-
Kafka
-
KafkaConnect
-
KafkaConnectS2I
-
KafkaMirrorMaker
-
KafkaTopic
-
KafkaUser
In the next release, the v1alpha1
versions of these resources will be removed. For guidance on upgrading the resources, see AMQ Streams resource upgrades.
Chapter 5. Fixed issues
The following sections list the issues fixed in AMQ Streams 1.5.1 and 1.5.
5.1. Fixed issues for AMQ Streams 1.5.1
The AMQ Streams 1.5.1 patch release is now available. This micro release updates the Operator Metadata that is used to install AMQ Streams 1.5.0 from the OpenShift OperatorHub user interface. The AMQ Streams product images have not changed and remain at version 1.5.0.
Red Hat recommends that you upgrade to AMQ Streams 1.5.1 if you are using OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.
For additional details about the issues resolved in AMQ Streams 1.5.1, see AMQ Streams 1.5.x Resolved Issues.
5.2. Fixed issues for AMQ Streams 1.5
Issue Number | Description |
---|---|
Refactor | |
Fix to generate new cluster or client secret/key when CA key deleted | |
StorageDiff should handle scaling nodes up and down | |
Exponential backoff in KafkaRoller sometimes takes 20+ minutes | |
Improve the logging in KafkaRoller class | |
KafkaConnectS2I doesn’t do rolling update after resources edit | |
Automate ZooKeeper scaling | |
Propagate all labels from template | |
When KafkaConnect is scaled to 0 the reconciliation always timeouts | |
Increase Cluster Operator memory limits from install YAMLs | |
The CR of a topic returns the wrong status after decreasing partitions | |
The CR of a topic returns the wrong status after changing the value of | |
Kafka Entity Operator has plain-text passwords in logs | |
KafkaRoller blocks rolling update when topic with RF=1 and MIN-ISR=2 exists | |
Cluster Operator fails to start on OCP | |
Fix parsing of forbidden configuration options and their exceptions | |
Fix the namespaces in RBAC files for installing the Cluster Operator to watch all namespaces | |
Kafka cluster is ending up with duplicate kafkaTopic after upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4 |
Chapter 6. Known issues
This section lists the known issues for AMQ Streams 1.5.
Issue Number
ENTMQST-2060 - Cruise Control default hard.goals
still include unsupported goals
Description and workaround
If you create a KafkaRebalance
custom resource containing one or more supported optimization goals in the goals
field, Cruise Control returns the following error:
Missing hard goals [NetworkInboundCapacityGoal, DiskCapacityGoal, RackAwareGoal, NetworkOutboundCapacityGoal, CpuCapacityGoal, ReplicaCapacityGoal] in the provided goals...
To workaround this error, do one of the following:
Add
skipHardGoalCheck: true
to theKafkaRebalance
custom resource:apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1alpha1 kind: KafkaRebalance metadata: name: my-rebalance labels: strimzi.io/cluster: my-cluster spec: goals: - NetworkInboundCapacityGoal - DiskCapacityGoal - RackAwareGoal - NetworkOutboundCapacityGoal - ReplicaCapacityGoal skipHardGoalCheck: true
Specify the following hard goals in the the
cruiseControl
property in theKafka
resource:apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1 kind: Kafka metadata: name: my-cluster spec: cruiseControl: config: hard.goals: > com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareGoal, com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.ReplicaCapacityGoal, com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.DiskCapacityGoal, com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.NetworkInboundCapacityGoal, com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.NetworkOutboundCapacityGoal
Chapter 7. Supported integration products
AMQ Streams 1.5 supports integration with the following Red Hat products.
- Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 and later for OAuth 2.0 authentication and OAuth 2.0 authorization (as a Technology Preview)
- Red Hat 3scale API Management 2.6 and later to secure the Kafka Bridge and provide additional API management features
- Red Hat Debezium 1.0 and later for monitoring databases and creating event streams
- Service Registry 2020-04 and later as a centralized store of service schemas for data streaming
For information on the functionality these products can introduce to your AMQ Streams deployment, refer to the AMQ Streams 1.5 documentation.
Chapter 8. Important links
Revised on 2020-09-09 13:45:47 UTC