With the introduction of build configuration to the KafkaConnect resource, Strimzi can now automatically build a container image with the connector plugins you require for your data connections. As a result, support for Kafka Connect with Source-to-Image (S2I) is deprecated. To prepare for this change, you can migrate Kafka Connect S2I instances to Kafka Connect instances.
Latest Strimzi doc says
KafkaConnectS2I
is deprecated. We should useKafkaConnect
for our instructions using Strimzi. https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/master/using.html#assembly-kafka-connect-str