January 13th, 2021

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January 13th, 2021 - YouTube Stream

• We are still working on Electron stuff, slowly but surely.
  • Moved to electron 11 to support M1 #1822
  • "autoupdate" means download latest and restart. Partial updates are possible
  • Interoperability between multiple release tools to a single tag
  • Project Board
• We will build a new RV prototype in story book for users to checkout.
  • Target to share that design next week.
• Pia and Isha are working with plugin authors and doing interviews around what can improve the plugin authoring experience.
• It is OSS day (week) at VMware and Octant was highlighted as a healthy project 🎉 (Sign up here: https://osday.vmware.com/)

Open Q & A

• Reginald: Octant chews CPU when idle.
  • Please open an issue with details and will investigate it.
• Listing resources from a cluster?
  • HasAccess
  • Caching the client to local
  • RBAC restricted should degrade
  • Going to open a discussion
• Web Components? Custom Components?
  • Why?
  • Benefit?
  • How? Register? Dynamic?
• Reginald: has anyone run Octant as a container and exposed it as a service?
  • Yes, people have done it, but it isn't support and has some issues, like the global context.