Multi-region high availability for Kafka workloads with a single Stretch Cluster

Redpanda Operator v26.2 enhances Kubernetes-based Redpanda deployments with multi-region resilience, safer maintenance, and expanded Kubernetes integration. Its generally available Enterprise Stretch Clusters allow one logical Redpanda cluster to span multiple Kubernetes clusters, using synchronous Raft replication to provide stated RPO and RTO of zero for acknowledged data during regional or cloud failures while preserving Kafka API compatibility. The Enterprise beta Pipeline CRD lets teams declaratively deploy and manage Redpanda Connect pipelines with automated cluster credentials, scaling, scheduling, resource controls, and lifecycle status. New community-available per-broker restart probes make rolling upgrades replication-aware by verifying that individual brokers can safely restart and have recovered replicas before subsequent restarts proceed. Gateway API support adds generally available HTTPRoute-based exposure for Redpanda Console and beta TLSRoute-based, SNI-routed Kafka access, offering an alternative to Ingress and enabling shared gateway infrastructure.

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