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Release date: 2024-07-23

Breaking Changes 💣​

New docker image name​

We have renamed the Console docker image to conduktor/conduktor-console to clarify our product naming.
Please modify your installation to reflect this change as we will now stop publishing a conduktor/conduktor-platform image.

docker pull conduktor/conduktor-console:1.25.1

Features ✨​

Conduktor Console IaC Compatible​

Console is now able to be fully deployed through an IaC approach with the following additions to Console 1.25 and CLI 0.2.7.

Manage Cluster Connections​

Manage your Console resource lifecycle with the addition of the KafkaCluster, KafkaConnectCluster and KsqlDBCluster objects to our IaC approach using the Conduktor CLI.

Checkout the example below and find the full definition at Console Resources Reference documentation.

---
apiVersion: console/v2
kind: KafkaCluster
metadata:
  name: cloud-kafka
spec:
  displayName: "Cloud Kafka"
  icon: "kafka"
  color: "#000000"
  bootstrapServers: "localhost:9092"
  properties:
    sasl.jaas.config: org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="admin" password="admin-secret";
    security.protocol: SASL_SSL
    sasl.mechanism: PLAIN
  schemaRegistry:
    url: http://localhost:8080
    security:
      type: BasicAuth
      username: some_user
      password: some_user

Short lived token generation on startup​

When spinning up Console, a token is needed to access the API. Previoulsy this had to be done in the UI which would not allow full IaC. Now, we have the conduktor login command which leverages the admin credentials to generate an API token, and allow the rest of the commands you may need to startup. This is expanded upon in the docs.

Admin and Application Tokens​

In addition to the startup token, you can now generate tokens for the appropriate scope, for admin and application level tokens. The docs will walk you through this.

Shareable Message Page​

Individual messages can now be accessed from a unique URL! Now you can link directly to a specific Kafka message for review or investigation, be that for sharing with a teammate, or commenting on a Jira ticket.

From within the Consume page, select a message and use the 'Share' button to navigate to the standalone page. The standalone message page shows the key, value, metadata and headers in a single view. Switch between the JSON view or table view, and utilize jq for additional filtering of the value.

shareable message

Large Messages Support​

We have put a limit on the message sizes that are sent to the browser in the Consume page (100Kb). From now on, when a message is larger than this size, we'll provide you with a link to access the individual message - this mitigates performance issues and still provides a path for troubleshooting, and sharing, large messages.

large message

Topic Catalog Details Page​

Expose contextual documentation about your Kafka Topics that exist in your organization with the Topic Details page. This helps democratize data to enhance its understanding and usage, and facilitate collaboration through a shared knowledge base.

You can choose to open or lock editing of descriptions within the UI using specific annotations. Check the Topic Resource documentation for more information.

topic catalog

Audit Last Activity of Users​

You can now audit the last activity date of users in Console.

From within the Settings > Users page, you will see a new column 'Last login'. Note that the user login event is also captured in the Audit Log.

Quality of Life improvements​

  • Introduced an intermediate screen for Kafka Connect, allowing you to segment Connectors by each Connect cluster
  • Within a Connect cluster, introduced an icon for each connector that clarifies if auto-restart is enabled
  • Topic Catalog Search is now case-insensitive
  • Improved error message when trying to delete an ApplicationInstance that is referenced elsewhere
  • Improved error message when assign ownership on resources already owned by another ApplicationInstance
  • CLI delete command can now be applied at the file level, simliar to resource creation through apply -f you can now delete -f

Fixes 🔨​

  • Fixed an error that occurred when configuring a KsqlDBCluster in the UI
  • Fixed a UI issue that caused several dropdowns components to look wrong
  • Fixed an error message where expected and actual topic replication factor were inverted in the CLI
  • When deleting a Kafka Cluster from Console, the Indexed data is now properly deleted as well
  • Upgrade dependencies vulnerable to CVE-2024-21634