This is a great container and works well - thank you. A slimmer container creates a stonger use case for "connect at the edge" - since the smaller footprint enables source connectors to stream from edge locations. These containers are unlikely to run in connect-distributed mode; instead they would run in connect-standalone mode.

A connect-standalone tag would

• add property CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_FILE_FILENAME
• remove properties CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_TOPIC, CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_TOPIC, CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_TOPIC
• change the EntryPoint from org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectDistributedWrapper to org.apache.kafka.connect.cli.ConnectStandaloneWrapper.