Operator Working Group Charter

Operator Working Group Charter

Chairs/Sponsors

• Omer Kahani (@OmerKahani)
• Jennifer Strejevich (@Jenniferstrej)
• Thomas Schuetz (@thschue)

Goals

• Assemble and consolidate available best practices how to write operators e.g. CRDs, APIs, ….
• Patterns and use cases how to use operators
• Enable a forum for projects developing operators
• Coordination work amongst participants/projects in the operator ecosystem.
• Guidance around interoperability, configuration, management, and consumption of operators
• Operator definition and maturity/capability model
• Operator Security
• Custom Resource discovery, use, auditability
• Upgrade/Rollback best practices for controllers and CRDs
• Data sharing between operands/operators, like some configMap, secrets etc
• Identify requirements with other projects and engage with the right projects. Discover operator needs to present in other sigs

First Goal:

• Create A Whitepaper (Initially Definition of an Operator)

Non-Goals

• Writing SDKs for building operators
• Recommendation of individual operator projects or tools
• Non-Kubernetes Operators (at this time)
• Creation of any new software projects

Potential Future Scope

• Airgapped Operators
• Meta Operator/Umbrella Operator
• Operand Lifecycle Management

Working Group Meetings

every other week on wednesday (Zoom Meeting)

• 9 AM US Pacific Standard Time
• 12 AM US Eastern Standard Time
• 6 PM Central European Time