Kafka Tiered Storage Client Compatibility

Interested in testing out the Confluent Kafka tiered storage capability. Currently I have my app using Apache Kafka client 3.1.2 reading from Apache Kafka 3.x (all pure open source apache kafka). I don’t want to change or recompile my app. Can I use my existing app leveraging Apache Kafka client to read from confluent Kafka to evaluate the tiered storage capability? Any gotcha I should be aware of if i stick with the apache Kafka client? TIA!

should work in general as enabling tier storage does not change the way how you produce or consume data.

create the topic accordingly

https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/tiered-storage.html#creating-a-topic-with-tiered-storage

hth,
michael