Once thought to be a temporary state, more and more organizations are finding out that maintaining on-prem Kafka and a cloud deployment may last years or even forever. Confronting disparity deployments means dealing with the inherent differences between on-prem and cloud Kafka. Whether you are using a service provider or maintaining your own, there are important items to tackle for long term success. In this talk we will cover the most important strategies to ensure a successful hybrid deployment such as: * Entitlement: How to manage and unify AUTHN and AUTHZ * Data availability: Patterns for data migration and continual sync between on-prem and cloud * One onboarding to rule them all: Altering your existing control plane to accommodate hybrid * Monitoring: Creating a standard for your entire Kafka estate At the end of this talk you will understand the critical aspects that need to be addressed to cut through the confusion, and enjoy long term hybrid stability.