/area test-and-release
/kind good-first-issue

Describe the feature

When debugging end to end tests locally, it's frequently helpful to keep resources around after the test run finishes to debug things. Currently this requires finding the call to EnsureTearDown and commenting

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We have some places where we need to have sync over async, usually because we are supporting a sync api but the transport only has an async api. The problem is that this code is likely to deadlock. For this reason we need to make sure we use the best approach to that

Describe the solution you'd like
Use AsyncHelper: https

Motivation: Why do you think this is important?
New user should be able to deploy an EKS cluster, create a bucket and an RDS instance using a launch button and also deploy the EKS overlay

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/construct-your-own-launch-stack-url/

Goal: What should the final outcome look like, ideally?
On github page of Flyte there should be a launchstack button

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Updating escalator config currently requires a pod restart. We should update escalator to automatically read new config upon changing on disk.

Describe the solution you'd like

Check for changes in nodegroup config before each run. If safe to do so, run with the new config.

*Describe alternatives you've considered