You can follow below steps 1. set inter.broker.protocol.version=2.1.x and rolling restart kafka 2. Rolling upgrade the Kafka cluster to 2.5 - 3. rolling upgrade ZK cluster Validate the kafka .
4. set inter.broker.protocol.version= new version and rolling restart the Kafka On 8/18/20, 12:54 PM, "Rijo Roy" <royvk6...@gmail.com> wrote: [External] Hi, I am a newbie in Kafka and would greatly appreciate if someone could help with best-practices and steps to upgrade to v5.3x. Below is my existing set-up: OS version: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS ZooKeeper version : 3.4.10 Kafka version : confluent-kafka-2.11 / 1.1.1-cp2 / v4.1.1 We need to upgrade our OS version to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS whose minimum requirement is to upgrade Kafka to v5.3x. Could someone please help me with the best-practices & steps for the upgrade.. Please let me know if you need any more information so that you could help me. Appreciate your help! Thanks & Regards, Rijo Roy This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email, and/or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Where permitted by applicable law, this e-mail and other e-mail communications sent to and from Cognizant e-mail addresses may be monitored. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email, and/or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Where permitted by applicable law, this e-mail and other e-mail communications sent to and from Cognizant e-mail addresses may be monitored.