Upgrade Apache Kafka
Before you can upgrade Apache Kafka, you must have first upgraded your HDP components to the latest version (in this case, 2.3.6). This section assumes that you have already upgraded your components for HDP 2.3.6. If you have not already completed these steps, return to Getting Ready to Upgrade and Upgrade 2.2 Components for instructions on how to upgrade your HDP components to 2.3.6.
For more information about Kafka on HDP, see the Kafka Guide
To upgrade Kafka 2.3.6, you must stop all of the Kafka brokers before you start the upgrade.
Shut down the current Kafka daemon, switch to the new version, and start the daemon:
su - kafka -c "/usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/kafka stop" hdp-select set kafka-broker 2.3.6.0-165 su - kafka -c "usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/kafka start"
To verify that the Kafka daemon joined the cluster, create a topic and submit it to Kafka. Send a test message for that topic, and then validate that it was received by a consumer.
If the upgrade process fails, follow the steps in "Downgrading Kafka" to return to your previous version of Kafka.