In this article we will provide a hands-on guide to building your very first operator in Ansible. Using the Operator SDK we will learn how to create boilerplate code, build and deploy an operator.
This article is part of a series that will walk you through understanding and building operators in Go or Ansible end-to-end.
In this article we will introduce the concept of Operators, the Operator Framework and Operator Lifecycle Management. This article is part of a series that will walk you through understanding and building operators in Go or Ansible end-to-end.
First, what exactly is an Operator?
An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application.
source: https://coreos.com/operators/
Or simply, it is the application that can deploy itself, manage itself and update itself. Welcome to the brave new world, where we don’t spend time doing repetitive manually tasks, but rather put our knowledge into software so it can do it for us, better.
In this article we will provide a hands-on guide to building your very first operator in Go. Using the Operator SDK we will learn how to create boilerplate code, build and deploy an operator.
This article is part of a series that will walk you through understanding and building operators in Go or Ansible end-to-end.
