Chapter 99

Lessons Learned

Interesting lessons learned + tips/tricks.

Subsections of Lessons Learned

Flux

Some lessons learned from flux talks and from talking to the flux team.

Helm Auto-update

  • Currently, you can just use the normal image auto-update mechanism
    • Requirement: The helm chart is stored as an OCI-Artifact
    • How: Just create the usual CRs and annotations
  • They are also working on generalizing the auto-update Process to fit all OCI artifacts (coming soon)

Check this out

Just a loose list of stuff that sounded interesting

  • Dapr
  • etcd backups
  • Prow (labeling)

Operators

Observability

  • Export reconcile loop steps as OpenTelemetry traces

Work queue

  • Go channels as queues with priority support