Chris Laprun

@scrocquesel yes, it might make sense to add such a test indeed. Thank you!

When you write "without running the application", do you mean without starting the operator?

What's the issue with running the main method? Not sure I understand what you're trying to achieve…

Yes, but you can already call `reconcile` directly, no? The only thing would be that we need to provide a `TestContext` instead of relying on `DefaultContext` (which probably shouldn't be...

Could you elaborate on how concurrency issues would occur? If nothing else interacts with the mock server during the test, the reconciliation shouldn't be triggered so I'm not sure I'm...

I created a PR with the alternative test style: #198.

I see. I should indeed try to port some more complex example to the extension.

Do you think you can finish that effort?

Indeed. We could add a configuration option to make the property as optional. I guess we just didn't see the need to it initial since, presumably, when you want to...

An option could be to add `optional-secrets`, `optional-configmaps` and `optionally-mapping` configuration entries to generate optional versions of the mappings. What do you think, @shawkins @geoand @iocanel ?