Updates in Conduktor 1.8.0!

We have released version 1.8.0 of Conduktor. This version brings a new certificate management mechanism for Kafka, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry connections. It also brings a large number of new events to the audit log. See the docs for a complete list of audit events.

Enhanced cluster configuration screens with auth helpers in Admin

Upload certificates to support SSL cluster configurations

Create Run Configurations in Testing for CI/CD executions

Features ✨

• Platform

  • Add ldapsearch tool to debug LDAP connections

• Console

  • Improve the UX when there are no clusters configured or when the cluster is unreachable
  • Schema Registry - Schema details: new "Structure" tab displaying the structure of the Schema (only Avro is supported for now)
  • Consumer Groups: You can now create new Consumer Groups from the Consumer Groups page
  • New Audit Log events for Topics,Schema Registry,Consumer Groups and Connectors

• Admin

  • Organization wide certificates management - See Docs
  • Cluster Configuration improvements
    • Add the TLS auto discovery on the schema registry and kafka connectors
    • Upload certificate ability if the TLS is discovered
    • UI improvements for easier auth configuration with SASL, SSL and AWS IAM connections
    • The authentication test now considers the "ignore untrusted certificate flag"
    • The authentication test displays the error message in a panel.

• Monitoring

  • New UI graphing library being used with more detailed data point tracing (tooltip)

• Topic as a Service

  • Applications
    • Access requests tab: You can now inspect if you have any topic access requests pending
    • When you have pending requests - it will be indicated in the application list and in the "Access requests" tab
    • Subscribed applications tab: you can now inspect which application has access to your application resources [by environment/by resource]

• Testing

  • New way to integrate into CI, through a Run Configuration that you can update in the UI - See Docs
  • When creating a run configuration, we now provide helpers for major CI/CD platforms (Github Action, Circle CI, Gitlab, Jenkins)

Fix 🔨

• Platform

  • Ignore SSL validation is now working for LDAPS connections when setting sso.ignoreUntrustedCertificate: true

• Console

  • Performance improvements
  • Kafka Connect: fix the metadata displayed
  • Consumer Groups: display correctly newly created Consumer Groups
  • Consumer Group View: Fix the sort on "Overall lag" column
  • Schema Registry - Subjects list: We now display a "⚠️" icon when a Subject has an issue instead

• Data masking

  • Fixed caching issues

• Monitoring

  • Fix rendering for topic analysis metrics

• Testing

  • Fix missing Testing audit log events
  • Allow overriding Content-type in HTTP headers
  • Ignore orphan tasks
  • Updated docs links to point to the new documentation site

• Topic as a service

  • Fix 'External topic access' table behavior