k8s config for reaching out kardinal kontrol running in localhost

kardinal-manager/deployment/k8s.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ metadata:
   name: kardinal-manager-role
 rules:
   - apiGroups: ["*"]
-    resources: ["pods", "services", "deployments", "virtualservices", "workloadgroups", "workloadentries", "sidecars", "serviceentries", "gateways", "envoyfilters", "destinationrules"]
+    resources: ["namespaces", "pods", "services", "deployments", "virtualservices", "workloadgroups", "workloadentries", "sidecars", "serviceentries", "gateways", "envoyfilters", "destinationrules"]
     verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "create", "update", "patch", "delete"]
 
 ---
@@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ spec:
               value: "kubernetes.default.svc"
             - name: KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT
               value: "443"
+            - name: CLUSTER_CONFIG_ENDPOINT
+              # This is valid for reaching out the Kardinal Kontrol if this is running on the host
+              value: "http://host.minikube.internal:8080/cluster-resources"
+            - name: FETCHER_JOB_DURATION_SECONDS
+              value: "10"

kardinal-manager/kardinal-manager/cluster_manager/cluster_manager.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kurtosis-tech/kardinal/libs/manager-kontrol-api/api/golang/types"
 	"github.com/kurtosis-tech/stacktrace"
 	"github.com/samber/lo"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	istio "istio.io/api/networking/v1alpha3"
 	"istio.io/client-go/pkg/apis/networking/v1alpha3"
 	appsv1 "k8s.io/api/apps/v1"
@@ -181,6 +182,11 @@ func (manager *ClusterManager) GetTopologyForNameSpace(namespace string) (map[st
 
 func (manager *ClusterManager) ApplyClusterResources(ctx context.Context, clusterResources *types.ClusterResources) error {
 
+	if clusterResources == nil {
+		logrus.Debugf("the received cluster resources is nil, nothing to apply.")
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	allNSs := [][]string{
 		lo.Uniq(lo.Map(*clusterResources.Services, func(item corev1.Service, _ int) string { return item.Namespace })),
 		lo.Uniq(lo.Map(*clusterResources.Deployments, func(item appsv1.Deployment, _ int) string { return item.Namespace })),
@@ -191,11 +197,9 @@ func (manager *ClusterManager) ApplyClusterResources(ctx context.Context, cluste
 
 	uniqueNamespaces := lo.Uniq(lo.Flatten(allNSs))
 
-	var ensureNamespacesErr error
-
 	for _, namespace := range uniqueNamespaces {
 		if err := manager.ensureNamespace(ctx, namespace); err != nil {
-			return stacktrace.Propagate(ensureNamespacesErr, "An error occurred while creating or updating cluster namespace '%s'", namespace)
+			return stacktrace.Propagate(err, "An error occurred while creating or updating cluster namespace '%s'", namespace)
 		}
 	}