Feature: Modify Default Producer Compression Type

[real-mday]

Adding ability to configure default producer compression type (related to #1405)

Example usage:

kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: redpanda-console
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: console
    app.kubernetes.io/instance: redpanda-console
    app.kubernetes.io/version: v2.7.2
data:
  config.yaml: |
    # from .Values.console.config
    connect:
      enabled: false
    kafka:
      brokers:
      - broker1:9092
      - broker2:9092
      - broker3:9092
      producerCompressionType: 
        value: "uncompressed"
      schemaRegistry:
        enabled: false

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[weeco]

The compression type config should only be stored in the frontend settings, so that the selection is persisted there. I think the endpoint & config addition is some extra complexity we should omit for a niche usability feature.

[real-mday]

#1405

Am I understanding correctly that although the issue is called "Set default compression type & reuse old messages" that you are only accepting features that implement "reuse old messages"? I can open a second PR which only addresses that but also maybe good to change the name of the issue

[weeco]

Now, but the issue was about saving the last selected compression type as a frontend setting. This PR introduces a new config in the backend + the setting is retrieved via an API endpoint. What could be done instead is to make it a config in the frontend and store it in a local state. This way the last selected compression type is stored (per user) and won't fallback to "Default"