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+# Developer Documentation
+
+## Requirements
+
+Development and testing the operator requires that you have the following tools installed,
+functional, and in your path.
+
+| Name             | Tool cli          | Minimum version |
+|----------------- |:-----------------:| ---------------:|
+| OperatorSDK      | `operator-sdk`    | v1.15.0         |
+| OpenShift Client | `oc`              | v4.7.13         |
+
+
+### Prerequisite - Install OpenShift Pipelines Operator
+This operator has the OpenShift Pipelines Operator as a dependency, which OLM manages when installing via a catalog. However,
+for local development, this dependency must be installed before *Testing Locally* can occur.
+* Log into your cluster's OpenShift Console with cluster admin privileges
+* Use the left-hand menu to navigate to *Operators*
+* In the *Operators* submenu click on *OperatorHub*
+* Use the Filter/Search box to filter on *OpenShift Pipelines*
+* Click the *Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines* tile
+* In the flyout menu to the right click the *Install* button near the top
+* On the next screen "Install Operator" scroll to the bottom of the page and click *Install*
+
+
+## Testing Locally
+1. Have a cluster up and running
+2. Run `make install` to install `CRD's`
+3. Run `make run` to start the operator
+   1. Or start the operator in your preferred manner
+4. Run `./docs/dev/seed.sh` to see all the configs/secrets in the cluster
+   1. Depending on what reconciler you are working on feel free to comment out anything in the file not related
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+echo switching to openshift-operators namespace
+oc project openshift-operators
+
+echo exporting kubeconfig
+export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config
+
+echo creating kube secret in cluster
+oc create secret generic kubeconfig --from-file=kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIG
+
+echo creating github secret in cluster
+oc create secret generic github-api-token --from-literal GITHUB_TOKEN=123456789
+
+#echo creating pyxis api key secret in cluster
+oc create secret generic pyxis-api-secret --from-literal pyxis_api_key=8675309
+
+echo creating github ssh credentials secret in cluster
+oc apply -f - <<'EOF'
+kind: Secret
+apiVersion: v1
+metadata:
+  name: github-ssh-credentials
+data:
+  id_rsa: |
+        MTIzNDU2Nzg5
+EOF
+
+echo creating docker-registry secret in cluster
+oc create secret docker-registry registry-dockerconfig-secret \
+    --docker-server=quay.io \
+    --docker-username=test \
+    --docker-password=123456 \
+    --docker-email=test@test.net
+
+echo creating OperatorPipeline
+oc apply -f - <<'EOF'
+apiVersion: certification.redhat.com/v1alpha1
+kind: OperatorPipeline
+metadata:
+  name: operatorpipeline-sample
+spec:
+  operatorPipelinesRelease: main
+  kubeconfigSecretName: "kubeconfig"
+  gitHubSecretName: "github-api-token"
+  pyxisSecretName: "pyxis-api-secret"
+  dockerRegistrySecretName: "registry-dockerconfig-secret"
+  githubSSHSecretName: "github-ssh-credentials"
+EOF