Development Environment for Operators Using WSL2 - updated 10/16/19

Following the instructions at 

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/using-wsl2/

I was able to set up a Kubernetes cluster with Istio in about 30min

Right now I am using Goland for my development environment in Windows but it appears that there is another option that could work quite nicely on WSL2:  

https://medium.com/@betakuang/setup-go-development-environment-with-vs-code-and-wsl-on-windows-62bd4625c6a7

Direct Integration with WSL from inside VSCode!!!!

Make sure you set the KUBECONFIG from inside a terminal launched from VSCode and you can then use kubectl

export KUBECONFIG="$(kind get kubeconfig-path)"

A few repositories have some example code that is valuable for coming up to speed with Operator development.

https://github.com/michaelkipper/istio-client-go

Update 10/14/2019: I switched to the aspenmesh client

and istio-1.3.2

https://github.com/aspenmesh/istio-client-go

https://github.com/programming-kubernetes/cnat

https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go

The client-go repo has examples for creating Kubernetes resources:

The istio-client-go library has examples for creating Istio resources (10/16/2019)

https://github.com/aspenmesh/istio-client-go

This library contains the classes you need to create Istio resources via Go.

See below for one of Interfaces in the v1alpha3 package

The programming Kuberentes book is awesome.  It also has a few repositories:

https://github.com/programming-kubernetes

Testing interaction with Kubernetes from client-go examples

Testing interaction with Istio from istio-client go ( I added some print statements at the start and end of the client)