strimzi-kafka-cli 0.1.0a9

Command Line Interface for Strimzi Kafka Operator

Strimzi Kafka CLI

Strimzi Kafka CLI is a CLI that helps traditional Apache Kafka users -mostly administrators- to easily adapt Strimzi, a Kubernetes operator for Apache Kafka.

Intention here is to ramp up Strimzi usage by creating a similar CLI experience with traditional Apache Kafka binaries. For example:

Native Command	Strimzi CLI Command
$KAFKA_HOME/bin/kafka-topics.sh	kfk topics
$KAFKA_HOME/bin/kafka-configs.sh	kfk configs
$KAFKA_HOME/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh	kfk console-consumer

kfk command stands for the traditional kafka-* prefix of the Apache Kafka runnable files which are located in bin directory. There are options provided like topics, console-consumer, etc. which also mostly stand for the rest of the runnable file names like kafka-topic.sh.

However, because of the nature of Strimzi and its capabilities, there are also non-traditional options like clusters which is used for cluster configuration or users which is used for user management and configuration.

Following is the high-level output of the Strimzi Kafka CLI:

Usage: kfk [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Strimzi Kafka CLI

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  clusters          The kafka cluster(s) to be created, altered or...
  configs           Add/Remove entity config for a topic, client, user or...
  console-consumer  The console consumer is a tool that reads data from...
  console-producer  The console producer is a tool that reads data from...
  topics            The kafka topic(s) to be created, altered or described.
  users             The kafka user(s) to be created, altered or described.

More info will be added soon.