June 24, 2020

[wwitzel3]

June 24, 2020

Agenda

• Plugin Discussion
  • Problems:
    • Must build binary for each platform.
    • No hot reloading.
    • No runtime discovery/registration.
    • DashboardClient is namespaced.
      • https://github.com/bloodorangeio/octant-helm/blob/master/pkg/plugin/views/root.go#L35
    • Delete Actions from Plugins
      • https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/blob/master/pkg/action/doc.go
  • Idea: Public gRPC plugin interface
    • Ensure that writing to the gRPC interface with Go is just as easy as it is now with the integrated Go plugin library.
    • Export Go to TS gRPC?
  • Idea: Local plugins are TypeScript
    • It was attractive that the plugins could just be written in Go.
    • Ensure we don't lose this ease of writing a Go plugin.
  • Idea: Provide a NamespacedClient and ClusterClient
• Ideas about accessing resources
  • SubjectAccess rules/checks and API interactions.
  • https://github.com/wwitzel3/subjectaccess
  • https://github.com/bryanl/clientkube
  • Drafting a proposal, will have a PR up by EOW.
• In-Cluster Challenges
  • Informers
  • Global Client
  • Global Plugins
• Demo: no kubeconfig

Open Q&A - add your questions here

• The current roadmap vs. where Octant is now has some drift, do we want to update that? When are we at 1.0?
  • Yes. Let's update the roadmap.
  • We are still missing some of the core things that really will make Octant 1.0. Finalize plugin interfaces. Finalize resource viewer. Electron application. In-cluster.