Hybrid multi-cloud strategy: What's your approach?

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Hey!

I was wondering what everyone's approach is to implementing a multicloud hybrid (on prem + cloud) solution with kafka? Some of the challenges faced is integrating multiple kafka resources in different (geographical) locations and making sure the right messages is received by the right consumer that is subscribed to the topic of choice. Scaling is obviously another element in the mix but I am not concerned about it now until I have a better idea on how building an event mesh with kafka could be approached.

Since Kafka does not support building an event mesh out of the box, multiple tools are used on top of it to facilitate this. What tools do people use? What challenges and gotchas do we have to keep in mind before approaching the event mesh integration with kafka? Happy to hear everyone's thoughts on this topic and start a conversation about it here.