You want to mirror on‑prem Kafka topics to GCP without installing new Kafka Connect plugins on-prem. Which deployment pattern achieves mirroring and writes data to GCS/BigQuery?
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Correct answer: Deploy a Kafka cluster on GCE VM Instances. Configure your on-prem cluster to mirror your topics to the cluster running in GCE. Use a Dataproc cluster or Dataflow job to read from Kafka and write to GCS..
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The correct option avoids installing new Kafka Connect plugins on-prem, as specified in the question. By deploying a Kafka cluster on GCE, you can use existing Kafka mirroring tools (like MirrorMaker) to replicate topics from on-prem to GCP. Once data is in the GCE Kafka cluster, a Dataproc cluster or Dataflow job can easily consume it and write to GCS or BigQuery. The other options involve deploying new Kafka Connect plugins on-prem, which the question explicitly states to avoid. Specifically, the second option still requires on-prem mirroring, and the third and fourth options directly contradict the "without installing new Kafka Connect plugins on-prem" constraint by suggesting on-prem connector deployment.
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