Hi Yong

Thanks for starting this discussion.

I'm in favor of anything that can improve user experience and onboarding.
I will take a look at the PR, it sounds reasonable to me.
I think we should be pragmatic and focus on user value. So, we should not
be too ambitious, and go step by step.

Regards
JB

On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 7:38 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
>

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