Ignoring updates to the status subresource?

[eladb]

I am building a controller that manages a custom resource and I want the controller to update fields in the status subresource of the resource based on the reconciliation process.

But... Every time I update the status, my controller receives another Update event (which makes sense).

Is there a best practice on how to implement this pattern?

Perhaps there's a way to configure the shell-operator to ignore any updates performed on the status subresource of the resource.

[eladb]

So what we did is filter the events inside the hook by inspecting the subresource field in the last element of managedFields.

Here's a short snippet (in JavaScript):

// ignore updates to the `status` subresource
if (ctx.watchEvent === "Modified") {
  const fields = ctx.object.metadata?.managedFields ?? [];
  const last = f[fields.length - 1];
  if (last?.subresource === "status") {
    return;
  }
}

Might be a nice feature to add to this awesome framework.