diff --git a/docs/developer-guide/strimzi-updates.rst b/docs/developer-guide/strimzi-updates.rst index 17284d8..0576986 100644 --- a/docs/developer-guide/strimzi-updates.rst +++ b/docs/developer-guide/strimzi-updates.rst @@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ Upgrading the Kafka brokers and client applications in Sasquatch (Kafka Connect Note that you do not explicitly set the Kafka ``metadataVersion`` in Sasquatch; instead, Strimzi automatically updates it to the current default after you update the Kafka version. +.. note:: + + When upgrading Kafka from an unsupported version to a supported version, an outage will occur during the upgrade of the second broker. + This happens because, while the first broker will be running the new version supported by the operator, the third broker will still be on an unsupported version. + Since Sasquatch requires a minimum of two in-sync replicas for each Kafka topic, this mismatch causes the outage. + Refer to the `Strimzi documentation`_ for more details. .. _latest version of the operator: https://strimzi.io/downloads/