confluent CLI - windows environment

I am exploring to see if we could run confluent on windows. As per the following articles, it seems windows is not supported.

https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#operating-systems Confluent Platform in Windows

However, when I look at confluent CLI, windows seems to be supported

https://docs.confluent.io/current/cli/installing.html#tarball-installation

But again, there is a phrase here about windows is not being supported.

On non-Windows platforms, the Confluent CLI offers confluent local commands (designed to operate on a local install of Confluent Platform) which require Java, and JDK version 1.8 or 1.11 is recommended. If you have multiple versions of Java installed, set JAVA_HOME to the version you want Confluent Platform to use.

So, the questions are

Is windows supported, as per latest ? ( I doubt it is not ?)
What is the CLI that is being supported for windows ? For what it could be used for ?
It also seems windows is NOT supported for local development perspective as well ? ( I mean is it possible to issue "confluent local" commands ?

PS : Please give inputs without referring to virtualized environments such as Docker

Solution

Yes, you are right windows is not supported. The CLI you get for windows is only to manage and retrieve metadata for the remote confluent platform. First, you will have to log in to confluent by issuing command confluent.exe login --url <url>. More info at confluent-login. Following are the commands you get with confluent windows distribution:

Available Commands:
audit-log       Manage audit log configuration.
cluster         Retrieve metadata about Confluent Platform clusters.
completion      Print shell completion code.
connect         Manage Connect.
help            Help about any command
iam             Manage RBAC, ACL and IAM permissions.
kafka           Manage Apache Kafka.
ksql            Manage ksqlDB applications.
login           Log in to Confluent Platform (required for RBAC).
logout          Log out of Confluent Platform.
schema-registry Manage Schema Registry.
secret          Manage secrets for Confluent Platform.
update          Update the Confluent CLI.
version         Print the Confluent CLI version.

And windows is also not supported for local development. You can't issue confluent commands like confluent local