Over 2 years ago, I started working on some ideas to build better Kubernetes controllers. In this post, I wanted to give a bit of a retrospective on how things have gone since then. Over the years working on Istio and other projects, I observed a number of major issues with controllers: Most code was about error-prone event handling and state reconciliation, rather than business logic. Most tests, in turn, were about the same. This, in turn, made the code extremely complex, brittle, and often...