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Kubernetes Operators manage application logic and are part of the Kubernetes control plane. As such, they are controllers that execute loops to check the actual state of the cluster and the desired state, acting to reconcile them when the two states are drifting apart. 

from the CNCF blog post.

Without the knowledge of the actual state of the resource (kafka pod), the operators cannot reconcile them as expected. It would be great if the broker/controller can return some metadata of these sensitive configs, like "last modified timestamp", to allow the operators have a way to get the current state of these configs.

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