Hi Dmitri,

Thanks for your feedback; it's much appreciated!

My current intent is to land an initial, "acceptable" version of the
Console in polaris-tools. From there, we can introduce new features and
improvements in subsequent PRs, hopefully encouraging contributions from
new community members.

I will take a look at your comment on the PR shortly.

Thanks again!

Regards,
JB

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi JB, Sohan and Artur!
>
> Thanks for adding Polaris UI. It's amazing how much can be done in just
> about 100 files :)
>
> I do not have much to say in terms of actual UI code, but it worked fine on
> my local with Node 24 :) ... well, one version issue I noted in my GH
> comment.
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitri.
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I created the PR for the Polaris Console (UI):
> > https://github.com/apache/polaris-tools/pull/85
> >
> > I also recorded a quick video with the current console in action:
> >
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1crPlUyQQPtEAZPO37for7SQvp4NwR_Pj/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > I would like to thank the two contributors with me on this effort:
> > Sohan and Artur.
> >
> > I'm still working on the Console, but if it's OK for you all, I would
> > like to land the console in polaris-tools to encourage contributions
> > on this.
> >
> > Please, feel free to take a look at the PR, and let me know if you
> > have any questions.
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
> > JB
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM Yufei Gu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi JB,
> > >
> > > Thanks again for pushing the UI effort forward! It’s exciting to see
> the
> > progress.
> > >
> > > Given that this introduces a fairly big change in how users interact
> > with Polaris, would you mind sharing a design document (or even a draft)
> > that outlines the overall architecture, scope, and key workflows you have
> > in mind? This will help the community review the approach consistently
> and
> > ensure the design aligns well with our long-term direction.
> > >
> > > Appreciate your work on this and looking forward to the details.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Yufei
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]
> >
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> About 2, I can share the screenshots that I did. Basically, you can
> > >> configure multiple Polaris server instances in the UI.
> > >> Then you can have several catalogs on each server.
> > >>
> > >> The UI has to manage several server instances, and multiple catalogs.
> > >> That's what the UI should not be in one server, but a standalone UI
> > >> being to manage several servers.
> > >>
> > >> Also, in my PoC (as you can see in the screenshots), I manage the
> > >> entities but also Polaris feature (Policies, TMS, ...).
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >> JB
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM artur rakhmatulin
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Hello. Thank you very much for the detailed information provided.
> > >> >
> > >> > Regarding point 1, I don't have a strong opinion about whether this
> > should be a separate UI application or part of Polaris Deployment
> together
> > with "polaris-server".
> > >> > Regarding point 2, could you please clarify?
> > >> > As I understand it, Polaris already supports working with multiple
> > catalogs, since there is the ability to create them through the API. Do
> you
> > mean the ability to connect to different Backend Hosts?
> > >> >
> > >> > I would also like to add that if there is already a repository or
> > branch with developments, I would be happy to dedicate some of my time to
> > refining the existing solution in accordance with Apache standards and
> > technologies.
> > >> >
> > >> > вт, 14 окт. 2025 г. в 14:50, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]
> >:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Hi
> > >> >>
> > >> >> It’s also what I did. I think we agreed on:
> > >> >> 1. Have a “standalone” UI (not shipped in the Polaris server).
> > >> >> 2. Have a multi catalog/instance UI, so basically with a
> > configuration to define several instance endpoints.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I started 2 with a minimal backend (with file store).
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Regards
> > >> >> JB
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Le lun. 13 oct. 2025 à 19:42, artur rakhmatulin <
> > [email protected]> a écrit :
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Hello. I would like to propose my help in this initiative if
> needed.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> I also lately build a personal Polaris UI with the minimal
> > functionality for managing roles and principals.
> > >> >>> Initially my motivation was to have a minimal interface which
> could
> > help to better understand all relations between entities.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> The repo is public, so everyone can clone it and try [1]
> > >> >>> Demo video [2]
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> [1]: https://github.com/binarycat0/polaris-admin-panel
> > >> >>> [2]:
> >
> https://github.com/binarycat0/polaris-admin-panel/releases/download/0.0.1-dev/Screen.Recording.2025-10-13.at.17.38.41.mov
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> чт, 4 сент. 2025 г. в 18:03, Yufei Gu <[email protected]>:
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> Awesome, thanks for the update!
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 01:27 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> > Hi folks,
> > >> >>>> >
> > >> >>>> > FYI, I'm resuming the work on the UI, I have the first
> components
> > >> >>>> > working with the backend.
> > >> >>>> > I will probably submit a draft PR on polaris-tools as a
> > discussion base.
> > >> >>>> >
> > >> >>>> > Stay tuned ;)
> > >> >>>> >
> > >> >>>> > Regards
> > >> >>>> > JB
> > >> >>>> >
> > >> >>>> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <
> > [email protected]>
> > >> >>>> > wrote:
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > Hi folks,
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > In order to grow our community, I think there's a space where
> > we could
> > >> >>>> > > do better work: onboarding of new users.
> > >> >>>> > > New users are looking for Polaris to be easy to start with
> and
> > easy to
> > >> >>>> > use.
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > We already do great improvements here, especially, I strongly
> > believe
> > >> >>>> > > that starting from the 0.10.0-beta-incubating release (and
> the
> > next
> > >> >>>> > > releases), we will have new users thanks to the binary
> > distributions.
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > And so, the onboarding and ease of use becomes even more
> > important for
> > >> >>>> > > these new users.
> > >> >>>> > > For onboarding, documentation is crucial. I know we already
> > have
> > >> >>>> > > effort on the documentation, a focus on onboarding is welcome
> > (started
> > >> >>>> > > guide, curl example, engines examples, ...).
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > Also, the CLI is helping for the onboard/bootstrap.
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > For both onboard and ease of use, I would like to propose
> > Polaris UI.
> > >> >>>> > > I started to work on a Polaris UI. You can see the first
> > screenshots
> > >> >>>> > here:
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> >
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/14q47kfdpWNvxYcv723xUqnBdwBFJ9qCx/view?usp=sharing
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> >
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TckYYif4Jz0dnHc7oRikgXx6i3awKKL/view?usp=sharing
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > It uses RestJS (https://react.dev/) and Ant Design
> > >> >>>> > > (https://ant.design/) frameworks, using MIT license (which
> is
> > Category
> > >> >>>> > > A from The ASF standpoint).
> > >> >>>> > > I'm currently build static web app (using yarn or npm). It
> > means that:
> > >> >>>> > > - the UI can be "embedded" in the Polaris server (just pure
> > >> >>>> > > HTML/JavaScript resources basically)
> > >> >>>> > > - the UI can run "standalone" and connect to Polaris server
> > instances.
> > >> >>>> > > About that, I plan to add an item in the settings menu to be
> > able to
> > >> >>>> > > configure multiplace Polaris server instances.
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > To be clear, it's certainly a "non production" audience that
> > is gonna
> > >> >>>> > > use this UI (new users, experiment, ...) but valuable
> overall.
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > Thoughts ?
> > >> >>>> > >
> > >> >>>> > > Regards
> > >> >>>> > > JB
> > >> >>>> >
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> --
> > >> >>> Best regards, Artur Rakhmatulin
> > >> >>> e-mail: [email protected],
> > >> >>> telegram: https://t.me/binarycat0
> > >> >>>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > Best regards, Artur Rakhmatulin
> > >> > e-mail: [email protected],
> > >> > telegram: https://t.me/binarycat0
> > >> >
> >
>

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