Hi Yong, I think it is useful. However, maintaining a declarative spec could be challenging over time, especially as entities and defaults evolve. If we go this direction, I would strongly prefer keeping the scope minimal and versioned, and treating it as a bootstrap focused schema rather than a general reconciler. A general reconciler would need to encode ongoing desired state, drift handling, and potentially destructive updates as Polaris evolves, which is a much larger long term maintenance and compatibility commitment than a one time, mostly additive bootstrap.
Yufei On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yong, > > Indeed, the synchronizer tool does not appear to have much traction in the > community (unfortunately). > > I'd support enhancing the CLI with handy tools for better UX. > > TBH, I did not review PR 1474, but the idea sounds reasonable to me. > > Cheers, > Dmitri. > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 1:38 AM Yong Zheng <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I created https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/1474 a while back as a > > POV to show whether we should add functionality in the CLI to allow > > bootstrapping base Polaris entities for a given setup. This is very handy > > IMO when people need to bootstrap multiple catalogs while avoiding some > > local scripts or creating another internal tool for orchestration work to > > get Polaris to a working state when deploying to a new environment. > > > > From the POV, the discussion around that time was that polaris > > synchronizer ( > > > https://github.com/apache/polaris-tools/tree/46fe5e057e617eecee4da41bc36791736e3c55de/polaris-synchronizer > ) > > would take up these functionalities. However, that doesn't appear to be > in > > place as of today. Thus, I would like to get some feedback from the > > community on whether we should proceed with adding this functionality > into > > the CLI. > > > > I really like the philosophy of declarative automation. Perhaps we can > > implement it with a lightweight declarative reconciler for bootstrap. > > > > Thanks, > > Yong Zheng > > >
