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⚡ Cache OpenAPI schemas to reduce memory usage
Wrap the discovery client with memory.NewMemCacheClient() to cache OpenAPI v3 schema responses. This prevents repeated fetching and unmarshaling of schemas during ClusterExtensionRevision reconciliation. The boxcutter machinery uses the discovery client to fetch OpenAPI schemas for resource validation and comparison. Without caching, these schemas are fetched and parsed on every reconciliation, leading to excessive memory allocations. Testing shows significant improvements: - Peak memory usage reduced by 16.9% (8.4 MB) - Memory growth reduced by 29.3% (10.5 MB) - OpenAPI-related allocations reduced by 73% (~9.5 MB) - Eliminated repeated schema unmarshaling operations - Extended test duration by 8% before OOM 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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cmd/operator-controller/main.go

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k8stypes "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
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apimachineryrand "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/rand"
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"k8s.io/client-go/discovery"
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"k8s.io/client-go/discovery/cached/memory"
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corev1client "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/core/v1"
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_ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth"
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"k8s.io/klog/v2"
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RevisionGenerator: rg,
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}
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discoveryClient, err := discovery.NewDiscoveryClientForConfig(mgr.GetConfig())
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baseDiscoveryClient, err := discovery.NewDiscoveryClientForConfig(mgr.GetConfig())
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if err != nil {
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return fmt.Errorf("unable to create discovery client: %w", err)
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}
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// Wrap the discovery client with caching to reduce memory usage from repeated OpenAPI schema fetches
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discoveryClient := memory.NewMemCacheClient(baseDiscoveryClient)
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trackingCache, err := managedcache.NewTrackingCache(
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ctrl.Log.WithName("trackingCache"),
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mgr.GetConfig(),

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