Cloudera Distribution of Apache Kafka Requirements and Supported Versions

The following sections describe software requirements and supported versions of complementary software for Cloudera Distribution of Apache Kafka 2.0.x:

Supported CDH Versions

Suported versions of CDH are described below.
Kafka Version CDH Version
Kafka 2.0.x CDH 5.4.x and higher
Kafka 1.x CDH 5.4.x and higher

Supported Cloudera Manager Versions

Supported versions of Cloudera Manager are described below.

Kafka Version Cloudera Manager Version
Kafka 2.0.x Cloudera Manager 5.5.3 and higher
Kafka 1.x Cloudera Manager 5.4.x and higher

Supported Operating Systems

Cloudera Distribution of Apache Kafka 2.0 provides parcels for RHEL-compatible, SLES, Ubuntu, and Debian systems as described below.

Operating System Version Packages
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-compatible
RHEL 5.7 64-bit
  5.10 64-bit
  6.4 64-bit
  6.5 64-bit
  6.5 in SE Linux mode 64-bit
  6.6 64-bit
  7.1 64-bit
CentOS 5.7 64-bit
  5.10 64-bit
  6.4 64-bit
  6.5 64-bit
  6.5 in SE Linux mode 64-bit
  6.6 64-bit
  6.6 in SE Linux mode 64-bit
  6.7 64-bit
  7.1 64-bit
Oracle Linux with default kernel and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 5.6 (UEK R2) 64-bit
  6.4 (UEK R2) 64-bit
  6.5 (UEK R2, UEK R3) 64-bit
  6.6 (UEK R3) 64-bit
  7.1 64-bit
SLES
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 with Service Pack 2 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 with Service Pack 3 64-bit
Ubuntu/Debian
Ubuntu Precise (12.04) - Long-Term Support (LTS) 64-bit
  Trusty (14.04) - Long-Term Support (LTS) 64-bit
Debian Wheezy (7.0, 7.1) 64-bit

Supported JDK Versions

Kafka is supported with the versions shown in the following table:
Minimum Supported Version Recommended Version Exceptions
1.7.0_25 1.7.0_80 None
1.8.0_31 1.8.0_60 Cloudera recommends that you do not use JDK 1.8.0_40.