This Quick Start guide will cover:

• Creating a project
• Creating an API
• Running locally
• Running in-cluster

Install kubebuilder:

os=$(go env GOOS)
arch=$(go env GOARCH)

# download kubebuilder and extract it to tmp
curl -sL https://go.kubebuilder.io/dl/2.0.0-alpha.4/${os}/${arch} | tar -xz -C /tmp/

# move to a long-term location and put it on your path
# (you'll need to set the KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS env var if you put it somewhere else)
sudo mv /tmp/kubebuilder_2.0.0-alpha.4_${os}_${arch} /usr/local/kubebuilder
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/kubebuilder/bin

You can also install a KubeBuilder master snapshot from https://go.kubebuilder.io/dl/latest/${os}/${arch}.

Install kustomize:

os=$(go env GOOS)
arch=$(go env GOARCH)

# download kustomize to the kubebuilder assets folder
curl -o /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin/kustomize -sL https://go.kubebuilder.io/kustomize/${os}/${arch}

Ensure that kustomize is executable:

chmod 755 /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin/kustomize

Initialize a new project and Go module for your controllers:

kubebuilder init --domain my.domain

If you’re not in GOPATH, you’ll need to run go mod init <modulename> in order to tell kubebuilder and Go the base import path of your module.

Create a new API group-version called webapp/v1, and a kind Guestbook in that API group-version:

kubebuilder create api --group webapp --version v1 --kind Guestbook

This will create the files api/v1/guestbook_types.go and controller/guestbook_controller.go for you to edit.

Optional: Edit the API definition or the reconciliation business logic. For more on this see What is a Controller and What is a Resource

You’ll need a Kubernetes cluster to run against. You can use KIND to get a local cluster for testing, or run against a remote cluster.

Your controller will automatically use the current context in your kubeconfig file (i.e. whatever cluster kubectl cluster-info shows).

Install the CRDs into the cluster:

make install

Run your controller (this will run in the foreground, so switch to a new terminal if you want to leave it running):

make run

Create your samples (make sure to edit them first if you’ve changed the API definition):

kubectl apply -f config/samples/

Build and push your image to the location specified by IMG:

make docker-build docker-push IMG=<some-registry>/controller

Deploy the controller to the cluster:

make deploy

If you encounter RBAC errors, you may need to grant yourself cluster-admin privileges: