Panel: State of the Operators: Hubs, Frameworks, SDKs, and Beyond
Panelat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 · on Thursday, 2019-11-21· at 10:55· Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center, Mezzanine Level·
summary
Panelists review who is actually building operators and what works: Operator Hub (operatorhub.io) and Operator SDK plus controller-runtime and kubebuilder are the shared foundations, dozens of language SDKs (Go Java Scala Python) are emerging, and one vendor plans ~100 product operators while others already maintain hundreds of Helm charts. Operators prove value for day‑2 lifecycle tasks (backup restore monitoring autoscale) beyond install, need better composition and bindings tooling, and require automated testing, clear capability levels, and wider consumability for mainstream developers.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:20Andre Tost
- 11:31Are operators hard to build
- 12:01Operators are our pattern
- 12:52SDKs
- 17:23Helm Charts
- 18:18Level 4 Deep Insights
- 19:45Quality of Operator
- 20:26Unit Unification
- 21:09Standardization
- 22:13Operator Framework
- 23:14Kubernetes Native
- 24:33Composite Operators
- 25:18Multiple Operators
- 27:40Testing at Google
- 28:46Building Trust
- 29:55Next Steps
- 31:39Extending the Community
- 32:18New Patterns
- 33:24Operator Hype
- 34:17Outro
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