Recently (1.18?) a new field was added to configs, managedFields. This is incredibly verbose, which makes kubectl commands like -oyaml and edit painful.

For example, on a random deployment I have looked at, the entire kubectl get deployment -oyaml is 640 lines. Managed fields is over half of that, with 358 lines.

I am not sure if its feasible to somehow mitigate this without breaking server side apply or other features, but it would be useful if possible. One possible idea would be to just hide it from kubectl commands, but I am not sure the impact of that. The goal of this issue is mostly to bring awareness that this causes some user pain and see if we can improve that a bit.

Version:

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.0", GitCommit:"9e991415386e4cf155a24b1da15becaa390438d8", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-03-25T14:58:59Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.8", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.0", GitCommit:"9e991415386e4cf155a24b1da15becaa390438d8", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-03-25T20:56:08Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.8", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}