Automating Stateful Applications with Kubernetes Operators

Track: Cloud Infrastructure
Abstract

Kubernetes scales and manages stateless applications quite easily. Stateful applications can require more work. Databases, caching systems, and file stores are harder to dynamically manage with data intact, and sometimes come with their own notion of clustering. Operators are Kubernetes agents that know how to deploy, scale, manage, backup, and even upgrade complex, stateful applications.

This talk provides an overview of the Operator pattern introduced by CoreOS, adopted by many community projects like Rook, Prometheus, and others, and supported by the release of the Operator Framework by Red Hat. With an understanding of Operators in place, the session will go on to detail the Operator Framework and its main components, the Operator SDK and the Lifecycle management backplane.

Jan Kleinert

Jan Kleinert is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where she focuses on OpenShift and the developer experience for developers working with containers and Kubernetes. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked in a variety of roles ranging from developer relations to web analytics and conversion optimization.