Introduction In the past we had to implement Kubernetes operators which had some interesting characteristics. We wanted to manage non-Kubernetes resources as part of our custom GitOps solution. These resources included git repositories and related user management, also Jenkins pipelines. Since this was a solution on top of OpenShift, we decided…

Java-operator-sdk allows developers to implement Kubernetes operators in a simple and convenient way. In this post I will give insight into the challenges of implementing operators and how the framework solves them. Operators in a Nutshell Kubernetes provides an extension mechanism by allowing us to define our own resource types, called custom resources. Running…

In the previous post we covered the technical issues that developers are facing when writing an operator, and the problems we can solve on framework level. In this post we will describe a feature introduced lately in Java Operator SDK called Event Sources. This is a major rework of the…