Development Guide

This chapter is for contributors who want to build and test the operator locally.

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.88+
• Docker
• kind or k3d
• Helm v3
• kubectl

Local Setup

./scripts/local-dev-setup.sh

This creates a kind cluster, deploys an lldap test instance, and installs the CRDs.

Building

cargo build --workspace

Running Tests

cargo test --workspace

Code Quality

Before submitting changes, ensure the following pass:

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --workspace