add combined kraft mode

[piif]

Description

introduce a variable kraft_combined to allow combined nodes broker+controller

Fixes #1510

Type of change

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How Has This Been Tested?

tests in progress

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[piif]

pull request modified after testing on combined and separate nodes, with scram users

[mansisinha]

thanks @piif for your contribution. However, since combined mode is not recommended for production, we do not have any plans to introduce it in cp-ansible. We will work on the scram authentication implementation in isolated mode. cc: @prabhamanepalli

[piif]

hi @mansisinha ,
sorry, but I disagree with this argument.
As a maintainer of a kafka cluster, I need to deploy development, preproduction and production clusters from the same playbook, with just different inventories.
Thus, I would like to activate combined mode in dev environment and disable it for production, from an inventory variable, with a default value to "disabled"

[mansisinha]

Hi @piif , we discussed your ask with the team. We can not directly merge the PR at the moment since this requires multiple layers of testing to make sure it does not break any current functionality. We will take this up for future release.

[piif]

Hi,
are there any news about this PR integration ?