Tips: Before Upgrade
✅ Provisioning (v2) is mandatory
✅ Main element managing all agents which are connecting to Kafka
❌ It no longer uses the ingress controller
✅ Supports only Postgres as a database
✅ All security elements are moved from security.conf to Lenses HQ
✅ Holder of license
✅ Remained the same in terms of functionalities; authentication and authorization were moved to HQ, along with new features.
✅ Single pane of glass for all engineers to check the whole Kafka ecosystem
❌ No Wizard / UI for making connections between Agent and any component of Kafka ecosystem
❌ Cannot work without HQ
✅ PostgresDB is mandatory for Production systems (H2 embedded available as of v6.0.6 for non production deployments)
❌ No longer holder of license
Read more how they work together in Overview
Pick a upgrade method
There are two upgrade methods and each has its ups and downs:
Decision Matrix
SLA requires < 5 minutes downtime or follows blue-green deployment patterns.
Downtime windows are acceptable.
Connections in Lenses ⅘ have been set by Wizard mode.
Configuration is simple (already use Provision v2).
Resources available for parallel infrastructure.
Quick upgrade is priority.
Wants to spend more time exploring IAMs and new potential permissions for certain AD Groups.
Enterprise deployment with SQL processors, complex data policies, and multi-tenant configurations.
Last updated
Was this helpful?