You should follow the guideline added in Kafka.apache.org. It’s listed under rolling upgrade section.
I’ve done it recently and it worked fine. Thanks, On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 07:47, Ankur Rana <ankur.r...@getfareye.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'll be upgrading Kafka version from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1. Are there any special > steps to take? I'll be doing any Kafka upgrade for the first time. > > > 1. Download and extract Kafka latest version from > > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/2.1.1/kafka_2.12-2.1.1.tgz > 2. Copy server.properties from the older version to the new > Kafka directory. > 3. Add some Environment variables to the new Kafka-server-start.sh file. > I have some modifications to some of the environment variables. > 4. Stop the currently running Kafka service. > 5. Start Kafka service with the new version. > 6. Once the server is up and running, I will follow the same steps with > another broker. We have 5 such brokers. > > > Just wanted to check if this is an okay way to upgrade Kafka version from > 2.1.0 to 2.1.1? > > -- > Thanks, > > Ankur Rana > Software Developer > FarEye >