Chapter 9. Downgrading AMQ Streams
If you are encountering issues with the version of AMQ Streams you upgraded to, you can revert your installation to the previous version.
You can perform a downgrade to:
Revert your Cluster Operator to the previous AMQ Streams version.
Downgrade all Kafka brokers and client applications to the previous Kafka version.
If the previous version of AMQ Streams does not support the version of Kafka you are using, you can also downgrade Kafka as long as the log message format versions appended to messages match.
9.1. Downgrading the Cluster Operator to a previous version
If you are encountering issues with AMQ Streams, you can revert your installation.
This procedure describes how to downgrade a Cluster Operator deployment to a previous version.
Prerequisites
- An existing Cluster Operator deployment is available.
- You have downloaded the installation files for the previous version.
Procedure
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Take note of any configuration changes made to the existing Cluster Operator resources (in the
/install/cluster-operatordirectory). Any changes will be overwritten by the previous version of the Cluster Operator. - Revert your custom resources to reflect the supported configuration options available for the version of AMQ Streams you are downgrading to.
Update the Cluster Operator.
Modify the installation files for the previous version according to the namespace the Cluster Operator is running in.
On Linux, use:
sed -i 's/namespace: .*/namespace: my-cluster-operator-namespace/' install/cluster-operator/*RoleBinding*.yamlOn MacOS, use:
sed -i '' 's/namespace: .*/namespace: my-cluster-operator-namespace/' install/cluster-operator/*RoleBinding*.yaml-
If you modified one or more environment variables in your existing Cluster Operator
Deployment, edit theinstall/cluster-operator/060-Deployment-strimzi-cluster-operator.yamlfile to use those environment variables.
When you have an updated configuration, deploy it along with the rest of the installation resources:
oc replace -f install/cluster-operator
Wait for the rolling updates to complete.
Get the image for the Kafka pod to ensure the downgrade was successful:
oc get pod my-cluster-kafka-0 -o jsonpath='{.spec.containers[0].image}'The image tag shows the new AMQ Streams version followed by the Kafka version. For example,
NEW-STRIMZI-VERSION-kafka-CURRENT-KAFKA-VERSION.
Your Cluster Operator was downgraded to the previous version.
9.2. Downgrading Kafka
Kafka version downgrades are performed by the Cluster Operator.
9.2.1. Kafka version compatibility for downgrades
Kafka downgrades are dependent on compatible current and target Kafka versions, and the state at which messages have been logged.
You cannot revert to the previous Kafka version if that version does not support any of the inter.broker.protocol.version settings which have ever been used in that cluster, or messages have been added to message logs that use a newer log.message.format.version.
The inter.broker.protocol.version determines the schemas used for persistent metadata stored by the broker, such as the schema for messages written to __consumer_offsets. If you downgrade to a version of Kafka that does not understand an inter.broker.protocol.version that has (ever) been previously used in the cluster the broker will encounter data it cannot understand.
If the target downgrade version of Kafka has:
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The same
log.message.format.versionas the current version, the Cluster Operator downgrades by performing a single rolling restart of the brokers. A different
log.message.format.version, downgrading is only possible if the running cluster has always hadlog.message.format.versionset to the version used by the downgraded version. This is typically only the case if the upgrade procedure was aborted before thelog.message.format.versionwas changed. In this case, the downgrade requires:- Two rolling restarts of the brokers if the interbroker protocol of the two versions is different
- A single rolling restart if they are the same
Downgrading is not possible if the new version has ever used a log.message.format.version that is not supported by the previous version, including when the default value for log.message.format.version is used. For example, this resource can be downgraded to Kafka version 2.6.0 because the log.message.format.version has not been changed:
apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
spec:
# ...
kafka:
version: 2.7.0
config:
log.message.format.version: "2.6"
# ...
The downgrade would not be possible if the log.message.format.version was set at "2.7" or a value was absent (so that the parameter took the default value for a 2.7.0 broker of 2.7).
9.2.2. Downgrading Kafka brokers and client applications
This procedure describes how you can downgrade a AMQ Streams Kafka cluster to a lower (previous) version of Kafka, such as downgrading from 2.7.0 to 2.6.0.
Prerequisites
For the Kafka resource to be downgraded, check:
- IMPORTANT: Compatibility of Kafka versions.
- The Cluster Operator, which supports both versions of Kafka, is up and running.
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The
Kafka.spec.kafka.configdoes not contain options that are not supported by the Kafka version being downgraded to. -
The
Kafka.spec.kafka.confighas alog.message.format.versionandinter.broker.protocol.versionthat is supported by the Kafka version being downgraded to.
Procedure
Update the Kafka cluster configuration.
oc edit kafka KAFKA-CONFIGURATION-FILEChange the
Kafka.spec.kafka.versionto specify the previous version.For example, if downgrading from Kafka 2.7.0 to 2.6.0:
apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2 kind: Kafka spec: # ... kafka: version: 2.6.0 1 config: log.message.format.version: "2.6" 2 inter.broker.protocol.version: "2.6" 3 # ...NoteYou must format the value of
log.message.format.versionandinter.broker.protocol.versionas a string to prevent it from being interpreted as a floating point number.If the image for the Kafka version is different from the image defined in
STRIMZI_KAFKA_IMAGESfor the Cluster Operator, updateKafka.spec.kafka.image.Save and exit the editor, then wait for rolling updates to complete.
Check the update in the logs or by watching the pod state transitions:
oc logs -f CLUSTER-OPERATOR-POD-NAME | grep -E "Kafka version downgrade from [0-9.]+ to [0-9.]+, phase ([0-9]+) of \1 completed"oc get pod -w
Check the Cluster Operator logs for an
INFOlevel message:Reconciliation #NUM(watch) Kafka(NAMESPACE/NAME): Kafka version downgrade from FROM-VERSION to TO-VERSION, phase 1 of 1 completed
Downgrade all client applications (consumers) to use the previous version of the client binaries.
The Kafka cluster and clients are now using the previous Kafka version.
If you are reverting back to a version of AMQ Streams earlier than 0.22, which uses ZooKeeper for the storage of topic metadata, delete the internal topic store topics from the Kafka cluster.
oc run kafka-admin -ti --image=registry.redhat.io/amq7/amq-streams-kafka-27-rhel7:1.7.0 --rm=true --restart=Never -- ./bin/kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic __strimzi-topic-operator-kstreams-topic-store-changelog --delete && ./bin/kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic __strimzi_store_topic --delete
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