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[mnlumi]

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Issue details

The size of the kubernetes-operator container is currently over 1GB compressed and 4.64GB uncompressed. It currently contains all available runtimes. It would be beneficial to publish multiple containers that are smaller in size and only contain the desired runtime.

Affected area/feature

[EronWright]

I believe that this feature would depend on running the deployment in a separate pod:
#78

[cleverguy25]

Added to epic #586

[EronWright]

Good news everyone, we just release a preview of Pulumi Kubernetes Operator v2. This new release has a whole-new architecture that uses pods as the execution environment, and each stack may use a separate image.
We do still use the "kitchen-sink" pulumi/pulumi image by default, but it is possible to use the language-specific images to optimize the pull. It is also now possible to customize a stack's image, e.g. to preinstall dependencies.

Be aware, there are some gaps in the story of official pulumi images:

• Add nonroot variant for language-specific images pulumi-docker-containers#308
• Enable ARM64 build for kitchen sink & provider-build-environment pulumi-docker-containers#297

Please read the announcement blog post for more information:
https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumi-kubernetes-operator-2-0/

Would love to hear your feedback! Feel free to engage with us on the #kubernetes channel of the Pulumi Slack workspace.
cc @mnlumi @JonCholas @diablo39 @rodolfototaro @UnstoppableMango

[JonCholas]

@EronWright do we have ETA to move from beta to GA? I can't consider it fixed until I have a stable version I can put in production, we use pulumi-operator to provide "deployment" services to our customers (devs)