Impossible to build a project with quarkus-kind in the classpath if kind not available?

[PierreBtz]

Hey folks!

Quick question before I open an issue. I have a project using the quarkus-kind to deploy locally in a kind cluster, all good there I like it :)

Now for the issue, when running on the CI, there is no kind available, which shouldn't be a problem since I don't want to deploy. However, I think that quarkus-kind unconditionally tries to load the image built in kind, even if quarkus.kubernetes.deploy is false, as evidenced by

quarkus/extensions/kubernetes/kind/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kind/deployment/KindProcessor.java

Lines 124 to 130 in 8bf9f63

	public void postBuild(ContainerImageInfoBuildItem image, List<ContainerImageBuilderBuildItem> builders,
	@SuppressWarnings("unused") BuildProducer<ArtifactResultBuildItem> artifactResults) {
	//We used to only perform the action below when using known builders that play nicely with kind (e.g. docker)
	//However, this excluded users that are just using external tools for building including the cli (e.g. quarkus image build docker).
	//So, we now always perform this step
	ExecUtil.exec("kind", "load", "docker-image", image.getImage());
	}

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I looked around in https://quarkus.io/guides/all-config but didn't find any property to modify this behavior. Am I missing something? Would it make sense to skip kind load... if quarkus.kubernetes.deploy is false? Or have a different settings to deactivate the load? Or catch the exception and just slip a warning "couldn't load the image into the kind cluster"?

The only workaround I see is to hide the dependency behind a profile in Maven, obviously I don't like it :)

[quarkus-bot[bot]]

/cc @geoand (kubernetes), @iocanel (kubernetes)

[geoand]

I don't think this is the proper behavior, it does sound like a bug to me

[PierreBtz]

Noted! Let me build a reproducer and sending an creating an issue !

[PierreBtz]

Link #38322