How to Use Field Selectors with Controller-Runtime to Filter CRD Events on Api-Server side?

[jimmyyuhao]

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Hello,

I am working with the controller-runtime package in Kubernetes and I need to implement a functionality where the API server only notifies my controller about specific Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Specifically, I want to filter events so that I only receive notifications for CRDs where metadata.name is equal to a specific value, such as nodeName.

I would like to know:

How can I configure the manager initialization to achieve this?
Is there a way to set up a field selector to filter these events at the API server level?
If direct support for field selectors is not available, what would be the best approach to implement this functionality in my controller?
Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[guettli]

same here. I could not find that in the docs. I found that design doc:

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/blob/main/designs/use-selectors-at-cache.md

Which is implemented in #1435

In my case: I want to watch one configMap. But I don't want to filter the cache for that, because I want to also read other configMaps. Afaik I can't get objects via the default (cached) client, if the cache is filtered.

@jimmyyuhao maybe this conversation helps: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C02MRBMN00Z/p1731692196792769