From 7a43930893098316c5f5a6d50ead2b3a1058d304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guangya Liu <gyliu513@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:25:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: remove kustomize dependency

Signed-off-by: Guangya Liu <gyliu513@gmail.com>
---
 DEVELOPMENT.md          |  4 ++--
 scripts/kind-dev-env.sh | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT.md b/DEVELOPMENT.md
index 9bc79e130..eabb1f603 100644
--- a/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Documentation for developing the inference scheduler.
 - [Golang] `v1.24`+
 - [Docker] (or [Podman])
 - [Kubernetes in Docker (KIND)]
-- [Kustomize]
+- [Kubectl] `v1.14`+
 - [ZeroMQ]
 
 [Make]:https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Documentation for developing the inference scheduler.
 [Docker]:https://www.docker.com/
 [Podman]:https://podman.io/
 [Kubernetes in Docker (KIND)]:https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind
-[Kustomize]:https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/installation/kustomize/
+[Kubectl]:https://kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/installation/kubectl/
 [ZeroMQ]:https://zeromq.org/
 
 > [!NOTE]
diff --git a/scripts/kind-dev-env.sh b/scripts/kind-dev-env.sh
index ba1df344f..7a64f7d01 100755
--- a/scripts/kind-dev-env.sh
+++ b/scripts/kind-dev-env.sh
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ fi
 set -u
 
 # Check for required programs
-for cmd in kind kubectl kustomize ${CONTAINER_RUNTIME}; do
+for cmd in kind kubectl ${CONTAINER_RUNTIME}; do
     if ! command -v "$cmd" &> /dev/null; then
         echo "Error: $cmd is not installed or not in the PATH."
         exit 1
@@ -232,13 +232,13 @@ fi
 # CRD Deployment (Gateway API + GIE)
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-kustomize build deploy/components/crds-gateway-api |
+kubectl kustomize deploy/components/crds-gateway-api |
 	kubectl --context ${KUBE_CONTEXT} apply --server-side --force-conflicts -f -
 
-kustomize build deploy/components/crds-gie |
+kubectl kustomize deploy/components/crds-gie |
 	kubectl --context ${KUBE_CONTEXT} apply --server-side --force-conflicts -f -
 
-kustomize build --enable-helm deploy/components/crds-istio |
+kubectl kustomize --enable-helm deploy/components/crds-istio |
 	kubectl --context ${KUBE_CONTEXT} apply --server-side --force-conflicts -f -
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ kubectl --context ${KUBE_CONTEXT} delete configmap epp-config --ignore-not-found
 envsubst '$PRIMARY_PORT' < ${EPP_CONFIG} > ${TEMP_FILE}
 kubectl --context ${KUBE_CONTEXT} create configmap epp-config --from-file=epp-config.yaml=${TEMP_FILE}
 
-kustomize build --enable-helm  ${KUSTOMIZE_DIR} \
+kubectl kustomize --enable-helm  ${KUSTOMIZE_DIR} \
 	| envsubst '${POOL_NAME} ${MODEL_NAME} ${MODEL_NAME_SAFE} ${EPP_NAME} ${EPP_IMAGE} ${VLLM_SIMULATOR_IMAGE} \
   ${PD_ENABLED} ${KV_CACHE_ENABLED} ${SIDECAR_IMAGE} ${UDS_TOKENIZER_IMAGE} ${TARGET_PORTS} \
   ${VLLM_REPLICA_COUNT} ${VLLM_REPLICA_COUNT_P} ${VLLM_REPLICA_COUNT_D} ${VLLM_DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE}' \