Run the demo in one kind cluster and publish the connector image

[dejanzele]

The demo now runs entirely in one kind cluster: Armada (via the armada-operator quickstart), the Flyte 2 backend, and the connector. The client and browser reach the API and console over port-forwards, and every hop between components is cluster DNS. A Flyte task submits through the in-cluster connector to in-cluster Armada, runs as an Armada job, and the run renders in the Flyte console.

Connector image

The connector is published as dpejcev/armada-flyte-connector (multi-arch, built from deploy/Dockerfile). deploy/kubernetes/connector.yaml runs it as a Deployment and Service that the backend routes armada tasks to. setup.sh deploys it into the demo cluster, and deploy/README.md covers running it against your own backend.

Quickstart

Start Armada with the armada-operator quickstart (make kind-all + armadactl create queue flyte), run demo/setup.sh, then examples/hello.py. The happy path needs no environment variables: the cluster name, images, connector endpoint, blob store, and example endpoints all default to their in-cluster values. The Flyte console serves the run graph at localhost:5001/v2 through a same-origin sidecar proxy in the console pod, and Armada's Lookout shows the job at localhost:30000.

Removed

• deploy/app.py — the flyte.deploy(ConnectorEnvironment) deploy path, superseded by deploy/kubernetes/connector.yaml (plain manifest, published image). No test depended on it, and deploy/README.md and docs/getting-started.md now point at the manifest.
• The host-run connector (c0) and the host.docker.internal wiring from the demo. The connector runs in-cluster and the backend reaches it over cluster DNS.
• The "x86_64 Python cannot load obstore" warning in the install docs. obstore ships a macOS x86_64 wheel (cp311-abi3-macosx_10_12_x86_64), so it loads under an x86_64 interpreter too.

Validated end to end: demo/setup.sh then examples/hello.py prints hello armada, from an Armada pod, and the run renders in the Flyte console.

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[dejanzele]

Superseded by the split into #9 (CI + connector image), #10 (Gang scheduling), and #11 (local devbox). Merge order: #9, then #10 and #11.