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SO YOU WANNA WRITE KUBERNETES CONTROLLERS?

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This blog post discusses common pitfalls in Kubernetes controller development. Important aspects include designing CRDs following Kubernetes API conventions, building single-responsibility controllers, and implementing a well-structured `Reconcile()` method. Developers also need to understand cached clients, handle reconciliation return values correctly, and use the expectations pattern to account for asynchronous updates and stale data in the cache.