Migrating kafka data from one k8s cluster to another.

[orbi-ci-bot]

I am planning to move Kafka and strimzi setup to a new cluster. We want this to be less disruptive as possible. How do we migrate the data from the existing volumes to the new ones? Is there any tool to help us with this?

I am running Kafka on KRaft on EKS with EBS as persistent Storage with 3 nodes with the controller and broker on them.

[kyguy]

Hi @orbi-ci-bot, have you considered using Kafka MirrorMirror 2? Here are some older blog posts that should be informative on how to leverage MirrorMaker 2 with Strimzi and help you get started [1] [2]

[1] https://strimzi.io/blog/2020/03/30/introducing-mirrormaker2/
[2] https://strimzi.io/blog/2021/11/22/migrating-kafka-with-mirror-maker2/

[orbi-ci-bot]

Thank you kyguy, I am looking into this. Let me see if I can replicate it. Will let you know if it works.

[kyguy]

Sounds good @orbi-ci-bot, let me know how it goes! If you find anything useful in your search please share here for others with similar questions or mark this thread as the answer if the links above were helpful!