Operators Overview and Scenarios

We're all familiar publishers using app stores to reach mass audiences for mobile apps. How is this possible for enterprise applications? The answer is via marketplaces. Operators support the packaging of kubernetes based enterprise applications so they can be shared and promoted in various marketplaces and catalogs. This enables enterprise applications to made available digitally in a self-service fashion.

Enterprise applications are usually complex. They are often not easy to deploy or operate and may require potentially error human tasks during installation, maintenance or monitoring. Operators should be an integral part of the development of enterprise applications so they can be used to automate these complex tasks.

This section describes details of:

• The reasons to build Kubernetes operators
• Technical implementation details of the day 2 capabilities provided by the sample operators
  • Automated backup
  • Automated scaling
• An introduction to the components of operator development