chore: add a binary makefile target (#7704)

.gitignore

@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ go.work.sum
 
 # Project Specific
 *.csv
+
+# Binary output
+karpenter-provider-aws-*

Makefile

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ KARPENTER_CORE_DIR = $(shell go list -m -f '{{ .Dir }}' sigs.k8s.io/karpenter)
 # TEST_SUITE enables you to select a specific test suite directory to run "make e2etests" against
 TEST_SUITE ?= "..."
 
+# Filename when building the binary controller only
+GOARCH ?= $(shell go env GOARCH)
+BINARY_FILENAME = karpenter-provider-aws-$(GOARCH)
+
 help: ## Display help
 	@awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*##"; printf "Usage:\n  make \033[36m<target>\033[0m\n"} /^[a-zA-Z_0-9-]+:.*?##/ { printf "  \033[36m%-15s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2 } /^##@/ { printf "\n\033[1m%s\033[0m\n", substr($$0, 5) } ' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
 
@@ -132,6 +136,9 @@ image: ## Build the Karpenter controller images using ko build
 	$(eval IMG_TAG=$(shell echo $(CONTROLLER_IMG) | cut -d "@" -f 1 | cut -d ":" -f 2 -s))
 	$(eval IMG_DIGEST=$(shell echo $(CONTROLLER_IMG) | cut -d "@" -f 2))
 
+binary: ## Build the Karpenter controller binary using go build
+	go build $(GOFLAGS) -o $(BINARY_FILENAME) ./cmd/controller/...
+
 apply: verify image ## Deploy the controller from the current state of your git repository into your ~/.kube/config cluster
 	kubectl apply -f ./pkg/apis/crds/
 	helm upgrade --install karpenter charts/karpenter --namespace ${KARPENTER_NAMESPACE} \