4. Using Operator in Dev Mode

Operator API exposes fields under devFlags that can be used to deploy custom manifests. This configuration overrides the local manifests pulled using script.

devFlag is an internal tool which mainly helps developers integrate their code. It is not a supported feature in downstream RHOAI. It might get deprecated in future release.

API Spec for devFlags

 devFlags:
    manifests:
      - uri: <github.repo>/tarball/<branch/tag>
        contextDir: <path to manifest folder>
        sourcePath: <path to start kustomize build> -----------------> This can be `base`, `overlays/x`, `default`, `custom` etc
   

DevFlags Example

Deploy Manifests with a manifests tag/branch

spec:
 components:
   dashboard:
     devFlags:
       manifests:
        - contextDir: manifests
          uri: https://github.com/opendatahub-io/odh-dashboard/tarball/v2.15.0-incubation

Deploy Manifests with custom source path

spec:
 components:
   dashboard:
     devFlags:
       manifests:
        - contextDir: manifests
          sourcePath: overlays/incubation
          uri: https://github.com/opendatahub-io/odh-dashboard/tarball/v2.15.0-incubation

Deploy custom manifests for component with reference to multiple repos

spec:
 components:
    workbenches:
      devFlags:
        manifests:
          - contextDir: components/odh-notebook-controller/config
            uri: 'https://github.com/opendatahub-io/kubeflow/tarball/v1.7.0-3'
          - contextDir: components/notebook-controller/config
            uri: 'https://github.com/opendatahub-io/kubeflow/tarball/v1.7.0-3'
          - contextDir: manifests
            uri: 'https://github.com/opendatahub-io/notebooks/tarball/v1.10.0'
     kserve:
      devFlags:
        manifests:
          - contextDir: config
            sourcePath: overlays/odh
            uri: 'https://github.com/opendatahub-io/kserve/tarball/mybranch1'
          - contextDir: config
            sourcePath: ''
            uri: 'https://github.com/opendatahub-io/odh-model-controller/tarball/mybranch2'