containerized-data-importer/cluster-sync/external

External Kubernetes Provider

This provider works with an existing Kubernetes cluster. You'll want to configure your own Container Image Registry, we tie into the existing Make/Build workflow, but modify things such that:

1. We build container images and push to the specified registry (instead of registry:5000)
2. We generate the manifests with the provided DOCKER_PREFIX (uses default port)
3. Uses your configured kubectl and deploys your build to the existing cluster

Building images and pushing to your registry

export DOCKER_PREFIX=index.docker.io/barney_rubble
export DOCKER_TAG=latest # defaults to `latest`
export KUBEVIRT_PROVIDER=external

make docker push

Build and push images, create manifests and deploy CDI

We use the same workflow as the ephemeral dev environment, but skip make cluster-up:

export DOCKER_PREFIX=index.docker.io/barney_rubble
export DOCKER_TAG=latest # defaults to `latest`
export KUBEVIRT_PROVIDER=external

make cluster-sync

A note about kubernetes local-up-cluster.sh

The external provider isn't quite appropriate for use with the local-up-cluster.sh script used in the Kubernetes source repo. We'll need to add an additional local provider for this to handle some of the specifics.