Confluent CLI Reaches 1.0 for Cloud & Platform

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This post announces the v1.0 milestone for both the Confluent Cloud CLI (ccloud) and Confluent Platform CLI (confluent). It details key features of both CLIs, including CRUD operations for Kafka clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, ACLs, connectors, Schema Registry, ksqlDB apps, and environments for Confluent Cloud. For on-prem, it highlights IAM features like RBAC and ACL management, file-based secret management, and cluster metadata discovery. New features introduced include machine-readable output (JSON, YAML) for scriptability and long-lived authentication via the --save flag, persisting credentials to ~/.netrc for automatic re-authentication. It also mentions upcoming features like integrating Confluent Cloud Metrics API and supporting RBAC management in the cloud.