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Improve documentation on debugging the controller locally

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
82/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go, kubernetes

Research direction

Start with DEVELOPMENT.md and follow its existing local debugging guidance for the source-controller. Expand the documentation to cover suspending irrelevant objects, HOSTNAME and RUNTIME_NAMESPACE, reducing --concurrent to 1, and configuring cross-controller interactions; done means users can use these instructions to debug or reproduce issues locally.

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Description

area/docs good first issue help wanted

The DEVELOPMENT.md could be improved to help users trying to debug problems or reproduce reported issues.

Things we could expand on:

  • Suspend objects that are irrelevant to the test at hand.
  • Environment variables
    • HOSTNAME: set to source-controller.
    • RUNTIME_NAMESPACE: limit the namespaces being watched.
  • Arguments
    • --concurrent: decreasing concurrency to 1.
  • Configuring cross-controller interactions.
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Go
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Merged PRs (30d)
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