Duration: 50 minutes
Level: Intermediate
This session tries to provide a shallow-dive into how several components of Kubernetes work. We go through different controllers and how their control loops affect different objects in K8s, and we explore some lesser-known features and extension points of the Kubernetes platform along the way.
Duration: 50 minutes
Level: Beginner
This session provides an introduction to the Operator pattern in Kubernetes and what benefits they provide by utilizing the building blocks of Kubernetes. Operators received broad adoption since they were introduced by CoreOS in 2016 and became a popular pattern to simplify deploying stateful applications with complex operational needs.
As part of the session, the attendees are introduced to the various SDKs and toolkits available today to build operators, and a demo of building a simple operator using the Operator SDK is part of the session.