create yaml manifests

[Raboo]

Describe the problem/challenge you have
I want to treat my BuildKit backend as a persistent application to always have a running BuildKit in my k8s cluster. So I want to avoid having kubectl buildkit create and kubectl buildkit rm as a part of peoples workflows causing potentially a multitude of forgotten BuildKit deployments running in my k8s cluster since I share it with other people.

However I do not want to have a persistent application running that is setup from some cli command like kubectl buildkit create in a my-k8s-cluster-setup.sh. I do prefer to have it in a GitOps pipeline that manages the state of my k8s. So it would be great if there was a --yaml-output or a --dry-run command to kubectl buildkit create that creates/outputs Kubernetes YAML manifests of what it intends to apply in my cluster. That way I can take those files and put them in my pipeline.

My end goal will be to have one persistently running deployment of BuildKit with HPA for auto-scaling workers.

Description of the solution you'd like
A --yaml-output or a --dry-run command to kubectl buildkit create that creates/outputs Kubernetes YAML manifests of what it intends to apply in my cluster.

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[dhiltgen]

Great suggestion! This would be a nice feature to add.

As a workaround until we get this implemented you can use kubectl get -o yaml deployment buildkit > buildkit.yaml (possibly with a little sanitizing of the results if necessary for your setup)

[Raboo]

Sure I could kubectl get all to retrieve all resources in a namespace as a workaround. But it requires a bunch of sanitizing as you said and it just feels that it would be to messy like that.