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Current state: Under Discussion

Discussion thread: here [TBD] 

JIRA: hereKAFKA-6963 

Motivation

Copying messages between Kafka clusters is common enough that Kafka has had its own standalone MirrorMaker tool early on in the project. Kafka Connect was introduced to provide a standard framework for moving data into and out of Kafka, and it has been quickly adopted by the community with a large number of connectors available for other platforms. One such connector that does not exist is a Kafka connector. While MirrorMaker does satisfy the basic functional requirement copying messages between clusters, its standalone nature means that there is additional work required in maintaining the MirrorMaker cluster, especially in environments where Kafka Connect will also be used.

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