The Cloud Agent Operator's reconciliation of the Cloud Agent components can be paused, allowing you to modify and troubleshoot them directly.

Pause Reconciliation

Add integration.ibm.com/pause annotation to by editing DpodCloudAgent CR:

apiVersion: integration.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: DpodCloudAgent
metadata:e
  namespace: gateways-ns
  name: dpod-cloud-agent-dev
  annotations:
    integration.ibm.com/pause: "true"
...

Warning: The value must be a string, i.e. "true", just providing true will not work and you will receive an error when trying to apply the update

Or using command line with kubectl and yq tools, i.e.:

kubectl get dpodcloudagent <CR Name> -n <CR Namespace> -o yaml | yq w - "metadata.annotations.\"integration.ibm.com/pause\"" "true" --style="double" | kubectl replace -f -

As long as this annotation is set in DpodCloudAgent CR, Cloud Agent Operator will not perform any action on Cloud Agent components. It is

Continue Reconciliation

When troubleshooting is done it is required to let the Cloud Agent Operator to continue manage Cloud Agent components.

Remove integration.ibm.com/pause annotation to by editing DpodCloudAgent CR or using command line tools:

kubectl get dpodcloudagent <CR Name> -n <CR Namespace> -o yaml | yq d - "metadata.annotations.\"integration.ibm.com/pause\"" | kubectl replace -f -