Loftsman as an Kubernetes operator?

[rockholla]

We've done a fair amount design-wise with the manifest schema and otherwise to support the idea of making Loftsman an operator running in the Kubernetes cluster. Tracking this possibility officially here.

[rockholla]

One idea around this is to actually encapsulate ability to deploy the operator into a cluster via the CLI, a given version of the CLI still encapsulating the version of stuff to deploy or pointers to those artifacts at least, so a workflow that looks like:

$ loftsman operator deploy  [--namespace] [other options]

which would deploy the operator as a step that is setting up your cluster not unlike initializing the cluster otherwise with needed CNIs, other base setup/config.

And then further operations would simply apply manifests to manage things in the cluster moving forward, e.g.

kubectl apply loftmanmanifest -n [loftsman manifest tracking namespace] -f ./manifest.yaml