The Control Loop As An Application Development Framework
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Wednesday, 2021-10-13· at 14:30· Petree Hall D + Online·
summary
Argues that Kubernetes’ control-loop primitives make a useful app framework and shows Tilt pulling in controller-runtime, an embedded local API server, and kubectl-style tooling to turn features into CRDs. Implements a file-watcher CRD and a port-forward reconciler that publish spec/status, run locally, and cut file-watch and port-forward support tickets dramatically while making code more modular and debuggable. Works well but drags heavy dependencies (client-go/grpc), forces etcd/auth workarounds, and requires swapping in-memory equivalents for some k8s components.
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