Kafka tile EOS date not shown in Tanzu Hub upgrade plan

Products

• VMware Tanzu Platform Core

Issue/Introduction

In Tanzu Hub users can use upgrade planner feature to plan the upgrade for their attached foundations. The list of products in upgrade plan should show the EOS date for products, however, there is an issue with Kafka tile not showing the EOS date. Kafka tile version 10.4.1 actually has an established EOS date of April 30, 2028.

Environment

VMware Tanzu for Apache Kafka v10.4.1

Cause

The relevant tile in discussion here is named kafka in Ops Manager while its Tanzu Network product is kafka-tile, and nothing currently links the two identifiers as the same thing - so the warehouse makes no connection, and the planner has nothing to read.

Resolution

When the user lands on the New Upgrade Plan page, the product information is coming from this query - GetUpgradePlanProductDetails. This will list all products deployed on a foundation from the backend. Kafka tile id and product slug do not match, so warehouse is not able to match the metadata with the installed tile.
R&D will work on moving kafka to the list of tiles that have this issue in order to get the exception applied.