[Discussion] The value of `kafka status` command

[craicoverflow]

Is there any value in the rhoas kafka status command? At the moment this prints ID, Name, Status and the Bootstrap Server Host as a table.

This information is equally obtainable by using rhoas kafka describe, the main difference is that describe prints the full object as JSON or YAML only.

Options

I see three routes we could take:

Option 1

Remove the status command and just use describe as is.

Option 2

Give the status command more value. Perhaps it can provide more information like:

• Connections to OpenShift cluster
• ??

Option 3

Remove the status command and change default output mode of describe to plain/table, with JSON and YAML formats as optional output formats.

This would essentially merge the features of describe and status.

[craicoverflow]

cc @wtrocki

[wtrocki]

How about?

Option 4:

1. Move status to the root rhoas status
2. Have kafka describe only command
3. Do everything said in Option 3

Option 1 Sounds good but we would need to bring status back for more services anyway
Option 2 seems to be too far fetched.

[craicoverflow]

Agreed. I know we discussed having both a root and kafka level status command, but this shows that only the former is necessary.

[craicoverflow]

@pmuir we've come to the conclusion that rhoas kafka status is largely redundant in its current form and it will make more sense to have a root-level status command which covers all services.

I will add this to the backlog but wanted to loop you in for context of these potential changes first in case you have concerns.

[pmuir]

LGTM

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[craicoverflow]

Also relates to #184

[craicoverflow]

Closed by #301