UnidirectionalTopicOperator feature gate

[tai-nd]

Following the docs https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/latest/deploying#ref-operator-unidirectional-topic-operator-feature-gate-str

For the KafkaTopic custom resource to use this feature, the strimzi.io/managed annotation is set to true by default.

Does that mean topics without the strimzi.io/managed annotation will be specified as bidirectional?

We have two Kafka clusters, one deployed on Kubernetes and managed by Strimzi, another deployed with cp-ansible, we want to use Strimzi TopicOperator to manage topics in both cluster, but we want to use bidirectional for the one created by strimzi and Unidirectional for another.

[tai-nd]

https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/latest/deploying#deploying-the-topic-operator-standalone-str

My bad 😢

[scholzj]

Just to clarify -> you can use the Unidirectional Topic Operator with Strimzi powered Kafka cluster as well as with some other Kafka cluster. But they need to be separate installations with their own KafkaTopic resources. You should not share the same KafkaTopic resource with both of them.