KafkaMirrorMaker2 target Kafka Connect topic override

[devopsalot]

I'm trying to set up a strimzi KafkaMirrorMaker2 instance where I want the underlying connect cluster internal topics to be written to the source cluster rather that the target. All documentation I have seen refer to the internal topics are required, and are written in the target.
In my case The ACL for the target is very restrictive, and only have write permission to the specific topic I am mirroring.
The latest (1.0.0 +) KafkaMirrorMaker CR simplifies the config, but does not appear to provide a way to explicitly set or override the "location" of the connect cluster from the default target. Is this possible?
If not, what is the best path to achieve this via existing CRs (KafkaConnect/Connector)

[scholzj]

The Connect cluster is always the target cluster. That is the design of the connectors. So there is no way to change it as far as I know.

[katheris]

As Jakub noted the KafkaMirrorMaker2 CR is designed so that the target cluster is used for the storage topics of the Kafka Connect cluster. You might be able to make it work with the KafkaMirrorMaker2 CR but I would recommend using the KafkaConnect and KafkaConnector CRs since then you won't be fighting Strimzi as much.

So the way to do it would be to define your KafkaConnect CR with the bootstrapServers field pointed at your source cluster where you want state to be stored. Then create a KafkaConnector for your MirrorSourceConnector making sure to set the source.cluster.bootstrap.servers and target.cluster.bootstrap.servers configs to the source and target that you want the connector to use for mirroring.