redpanda-data / redpanda-data/console
Create User functionality in non-Redpanda environments
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backend
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frontend
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Creating a new user currently requires the Redpanda Admin API to be configured. There are multiple issues with this:
- The Kafka API also provides a way of creating/updating/deleting Kafka users. We should offer this as an alternative if the Redpanda admin api is not configured.
- We do not disable the Create User button if creating users is not possible. This is a bad UX as users would try to create users and only after submitting the form they will see the error message
Proposal:
- Implement backend to support managing users via the Kafka API
- Expose whether managing users is supported so that the frontend can use this to disable buttons as needed
- Frontend should disable buttons if the functionality is not available
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the existing Create User flow and how Redpanda Admin API configuration is checked. Then inspect the Kafka API user-management path and the frontend button state; the work is done when supported environments can manage users and unavailable actions are disabled before submission.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api, backend, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100