Joseph Glanville

Yes it's completely doable via the API. I chose to go with kubectl for the prototype because that works out of the box within a pod assuming the right role...

We are using GKE on Google Cloud Platform. I have written the prototype and tested it on our clusters. I will clean it up and push it to this branch...

@lfittl this has now been switched to the k8s client-go SDK. It will work out of the box when running in-cluster as long as this RBAC rule has been granted...

A secondary problem is if you are not located in Germany (or even Europe in my case) the mirror configuration is incredibly slow which hurts getting started: 

Yeah it's essentially a requirement for use as a transpiler. I have this implemented on a branch. I will see if I can open a PR tomorrow or something after...