Release 74: Kafka ACL Management and JSON Schema Support

Thursday, April 29th, 2021 by Factor House

Release Info

Kpow can be found on Dockerhub

docker pull operatr/kpow:74

View our Docker quick start here.

Kpow v74 comes packed with features including full support for Kafka ACL Management, JSON Schema support, and a raft of UI and performance improvements.

ACL Management

Kpow provides a rich user interface for Kafka ACL management with the ability to inspect, create, clone, and delete ACLs at a Principal, Host, Resource, or simple ACL level.

Kpow ACL Management UI

See our documentation for the minimum ACL permissions required by Kpow.

Release v74 Changelog

See the Factor House Product Roadmap to understand current delivery priorities.

Kpow v74 Changelog

See the full Kpow Changelog for information on previous releases

  • Full Kafka ACL Management UI
  • Client UI / Server performance improvements. General UI improvements.
  • Bumped Kafka clients to 2.8.0 for improved streams/operational resiliency.
  • New Prometheus metrics:
    • schema_subject_version
    • acl_count
    • cluster_controller
    • broker_urp
    • connect_connector_state
    • connect_connector_task_state
    • registry_subject_version
  • Schema Registry: added support for Protobuf and JSON Schema.
  • Data Inspect: added JSON Schema Serde.
ACL
Host
JSON Schema
Principal
Resource