Issues

• Field-level Enum marker is dropped when the field's type has its own Enum (regression in v0.21.0)

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1486 · Filter by author jandubois opened on Oct 10, 2026
  1

• loader: on Windows a filesystem root ending in "..." loads only the root directory's package

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1484 · Filter by author lusoris opened on Oct 9, 2026

• Using DeploymentStatus from k8s.io/api/apps/v1 1.37 breaks CRDs because of optional fields

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1483 · Filter by author EraYaN opened on Oct 6, 2026
  1

• Consider stripping inline comments from all marker values

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1479 · Filter by author kannon92 opened on Sep 22, 2026
  1

• controller-gen does not support XValidation on type aliases

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1462 · Filter by author dongjiang1989 opened on Aug 5, 2026

• controller-gen: add a flag to ignore top level object and type metadata to crd generator

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1431 · Filter by author zak905 opened on Jun 14, 2026
  17

• crd: nondeterministic x-kubernetes-validations order when +k8s: markers are mixed with +kubebuilder:validation:XValidation on one field

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1429 · Filter by author zachaller opened on Jun 11, 2026
  5

• metadata.name validation

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1424 · Filter by author jpbetz opened on Jun 9, 2026
  5

• controller-gen: Why uint32/uint64 are mapped to int32/int64?

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1411 · Filter by author fossedihelm opened on May 11, 2026
  3

• Allow AtMostOneOf/ExactlyOneOf/AtLeastOneOf markers to emit OpenAPI oneOf/anyOf instead of CEL

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1409 · Filter by author HadrienPatte opened on May 9, 2026
  2

• Align the project with AI contribution standards

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1382 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Apr 19, 2026
  2

• Please enable Copilot reviews

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1380 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Apr 19, 2026
  8

• Inconsistent handling of YEAR substitution across generators

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1371 · Filter by author felix-kaestner opened on Mar 27, 2026
  18

  

• Value of supporting RBAC and Webhook generation?

  lifecycle/stale
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1350 · Filter by author alvaroaleman opened on Feb 19, 2026
  14

• Feature Request: Provide an explicit way to opt out of type-level validations

  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1301 · Filter by author lalitc375 opened on Oct 30, 2025
  10

• Request for Enhancement: Feature Gate Support in controller-gen

  lifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1238 · Filter by author camilamacedo86 opened on Jul 17, 2025
  4

• It should be possible to line break CEL validation expressions

  lifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1146 · Filter by author alvaroaleman opened on Feb 7, 2025
  12

• Pathological CRD generation when struct names clash

  lifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1137 · Filter by author Miles-Garnsey opened on Jan 29, 2025
  7

• Generating manifest with backtick in pattern

  kind/buglifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#1084 · Filter by author kollektiv opened on Nov 2, 2024
  8

• Add verbosity to controller-gen

  help wantedlifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#889 · Filter by author grzesuav opened on Mar 6, 2024
  8

  

• controller-gen fails to handle individual file in paths

  lifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#837 · Filter by author mmingdai opened on Jul 26, 2023
  17

  

• Promote minimized CRD ObjectMeta type to be it's own named type

  help wantedlifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#805 · Filter by author jessefeinman opened on Apr 27, 2023
  12

  

• Role and Clusterrole binding are not generated correctly

  help wantedkind/feature
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#760 · Filter by author RealAnna opened on Jan 12, 2023
  2

  

• Support for a feature gate flag/marker when generating CRDs

  help wantedlifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#600 · Filter by author akutz opened on Aug 26, 2021
  25

• Marker comment ignored if immediately followed by anything other than newline

  lifecycle/frozen
  kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools#551 · Filter by author matthchr opened on Mar 29, 2021
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