Push-button migration from Confluent to Redpanda

Redpanda 26.2 introduces expanded Shadowing capabilities intended to simplify migrations from Confluent Cloud, Confluent Platform, and other Kafka-compatible systems by continuously replicating topic data, consumer offsets, ACLs, and Schema Registry contents into a Redpanda cluster. The feature uses API-based Schema Registry synchronization to preserve subjects, schema versions, compatibility settings, references, and identifiers, addressing difficulties associated with manual migrations, MirrorMaker, custom scripts, and disruptive cutovers. Shadowing supports incremental and full synchronization cycles, validation of schemas, configurable handling of unsupported Confluent-specific features, destination write protection during replication, and topic-by-topic failover to enable gradual application migration. Redpanda also supports registry contexts, filtering, and context remapping for complex multi-tenant environments or consolidation of multiple source registries. Beyond migration, the company presents the capability as a way to operate Redpanda as a continuously synchronized disaster-recovery standby for Confluent or Kafka deployments. The release is available for Redpanda Self-Managed 26.2 and Redpanda Cloud BYOC and Dedicated offerings, while API-mode schema replication and Shadowing require an Enterprise license or eligible cloud trial.

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