1. Create the `WATCH_NAMESPACE` and `LEADER_ELECTION_NAMESPACE` if they are not created yet.

```bash
kubectl create ns $WATCH_NAMESPACE --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
kubectl create ns $LEADER_ELECTION_NAMESPACE --dry-run -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
```

1. From the istio repo root directory, run `go run ./operator/cmd/operator/*.go server`

            }

            localGradle {
                name = "QUICKCHECK_WITH_GRADLE_BUILT_BY_GRADLE"
                tasks = "clean sanityCheck test -PflakyTests=exclude " + if (bundleGroovy4) "--dry-run" else ""
                gradleHome = "%teamcity.build.checkoutDir%/dogfood-second"
                gradleParams = defaultParameters
            }
        }
    )
})

  // persisted. An invalid or unrecognized dryRun directive will
  // result in an error response and no further processing of the
  // request. Valid values are:
  // - All: all dry run stages will be processed
  // +optional
  repeated string dryRun = 1;

  // Force is going to "force" Apply requests. It means user will
  // re-acquire conflicting fields owned by other people.

- Kubectl: restores `--dry-run`, `--dry-run=true`, and `--dry-run=false` for compatibility with pre-1.23 invocations. ([#107021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107021), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG CLI and Testing]

- Kubectl stack traces now only print at verbose `-v=99` and not `-v=6` ([#108053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108053), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane))
- Kubectl: restored `--dry-run`, `--dry-run=true`, and `--dry-run=false` for compatibility with pre-1.23 invocations. ([#107003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107003), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto))

- Kubeadm: now supports image repository format validation. ([#112732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112732), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- Kubeadm: sub-phases are now able to support the dry-run mode, e.g. kubeadm reset phase cleanup-node --dry-run ([#112945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112945), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Bug or Regression

- Added (dry run) and (server dry run) suffixes to `kubectl scale` command when `dry-run` is passed ([#114252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114252), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Added error message "dry-run can not be used when --force is set" when dry-run and force flags are set in replace command. ([#110326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110326), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

* - kubeadm now supports "ci/latest-1.8" or "ci-cross/latest-1.8" and similar labels. ([#49119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49119), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
* kubeadm: Adds dry-run support for kubeadm using the `--dry-run` option ([#50631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50631), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- Kubeadm: add the `--dry-run` flag to the `control-plane` phase of "kubeadm init". ([#102722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102722), [@vinayakankugoyal](https://github.com/vinayakankugoyal))