Chapter 1: Introducing the Operator Framework

Managing a Kubernetes cluster is hard. This is partly due to the fact that any microservice architecture is going to be inherently based on the interactions of many small components, each introducing its own potential point of failure. There are, of course, many benefits to this type of system design, such as graceful error handling thanks to the separation of responsibilities. However, diagnosing and reconciling such errors requires significant engineering resources and a keen familiarity with an application's design. This is a major pain point for project teams who migrate to the Kubernetes platform.

The Operator Framework was introduced to the Kubernetes ecosystem to address these problems. This ...

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