# Multi-region high availability for Kafka workloads with a single Stretch Cluster

DevFeed: [Multi-region high availability for Kafka workloads with a single Stretch Cluster](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multi-region-high-availability-for-kafka-workloads-with-a-single-stretch-cluster-12718.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.redpanda.com/blog/multi-region-high-availability-kafka-stretch-clusters>)

Author: David Yu

Published: 2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Redpanda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redpanda.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Raft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/raft.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [stream-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stream-processing.md>)

Tags: [clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clusters.md>), [k8s](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/k8s.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [raft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/raft.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [stream-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stream-processing.md>)

## AI overview

Redpanda Operator 26.2 introduces generally available Stretch Clusters, allowing one logical Redpanda cluster to span multiple Kubernetes clusters and regions. The release provides synchronous replication with Raft-based automatic failover, safer broker rolling restarts, Redpanda Connect pipelines as Kubernetes resources, and Gateway API support for Redpanda Console.

## Source excerpt

Redpanda Operator 26.2 brings GA Stretch Clusters for multi-region replication, Redpanda Connect pipelines as K8s resources, Gateway API support, and safer rolling restarts.