How to deploy kctf-operator

[apogiatzis]

Hey guys,

I was looking for instructions on how to build and deploy the kctf-operator and stumbled across this documentation page https://github.com/google/kctf/blob/v1/docs/kctf-operator.md however it seems that it's out of date.

Even though the instructions recommend using operator-sdk v0.18.x, when I try to generate the CRDs I am getting the following error:

FATA[0000] failed to read config: error unmarshalling project configuration: error unmarshaling JSON: while decoding JSON: json: cannot unmarshal array into Go struct field Config.layout of type string

Can you please advise on the matter?

[sroettger]

Ah, Eduardo just updated the operator to a newer version I think. @sirdarckcat can you take a look?

[sirdarckcat]

Oh, sorry, I forgot about that document

Here's the script we used, it can be ran after you activate kCTF.

https://github.com/google/kctf/blob/v1/kctf-operator/build-and-deploy-operator.sh

[sirdarckcat]

Also this https://github.com/google/kctf/blob/v1/.github/workflows/update-images.yaml#L178 explains what to install

[apogiatzis]

Thanks for the pointers! It's much appeciated!

However I am looking into deploying the operator on a kubernetes cluster on premise. So I assume the ${KCTF_BIN}/kctf-cluster" start command would deploy the operator on a GKE cluster right? How would you suggest deploying the operator on an on premise cluster?

[sirdarckcat]

hmm, well, some things wont work, but try it! add a namespace called kctf-system and then run kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/kctf/v1/dist/resources/operator.yaml

that said, it's probably better for you to just send a pull request and modify the kind cluster.

[apogiatzis]

Will try it out! Thanks!

Also mentioning this here #342 as it seems related.

I will keep you informed of the progress here.

[sirdarckcat]

yep, I agree. I think we can mark this as a duplicate of 342.