Make it work without cluster scope

[sderosiaux]

Hi,
I'm working on a project using a large shared kubernetes cluster in the company and we don't have the permissions to define ClusterRoles. Trying to start event-exporter obviously fails (just to monitor my namespace). Is it possible to make it work without ClusterRole ?

[mustafaakin]

Hello, it is possible to watch only a namespace, but to make that change easily, the tool would be able to watch only a single namespace. I think it's a fair assumption to make in order to keep things simple.

[chaurasiya]

@mustafaakin
Hi,
I've similar requirement. What should I change to make it work without having permissions to define ClusterRoles? May be just a hint, where to start would be really helpful for workaround.
Thanks

[chaurasiya]

@mustafaakin
I see we can make it work by using this config build

kubernetes-event-exporter/pkg/kube/client.go

Line 30 in d6b6842

return clientcmd.BuildConfigFromFlags("", filepath.Join(os.Getenv("HOME"), ".kube", "config"))

At this point by default the tool is using clusterConfig. I can modify it for my purpose to make it work.
Actually I'm facing an issue while building the docker image. Can you help me resolving the following issue?