Support a declarative way of updating, akin to kubectl apply

[ion-elgreco]

Which project are you requesting an enhancement for?

kr8s

What do you need?

I only see create or patch in the methods, but no way to do something like that's akin to kubectl apply

[ion-elgreco]

Never mind :D

[jacobtomlinson]

I'm curious why you closed this out? Currently we do not support apply() but I definitely want to add it at some point.

I started an implementation in #75 but it has gone stale and I need to revisit it. There is some complexity around client-side and server-side applies which makes this slightly less trivial than implementing a traditional upsert.

[ion-elgreco]

@jacobtomlinson so I was using patch, but I thought I showed the same behaviours as kubectl apply, since it gave an error when I changed a resource in the cluster, but didn't update the python object

[jacobtomlinson]

Sure it is similar, but the .patch() implementation in kr8s is the same as the kubectl patch implementation. There are some differences between kubectl patch and kubectl apply.

[ion-elgreco]

@jacobtomlinson is this something you plan on reviving?

[jacobtomlinson]

It's on the backlog but I haven't gotten to it yet. It's definitely something we should add.