Kubernetes Operators and the future of cloud-native DevOps - George Hantzaras

George Hantzaras, Director, Kubernetes Engineering at MongoDB, presents his Oπe
conf 2023 Speech titled “Kubernetes Operators and the future of cloud-native DevOps”.
An increasing number of companies are running production Kubernetes workloads, with more and more reporting difficulties managing their Kubernetes ecosystem. On top of that, deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes adds additional overhead. How can custom operators abstract some of this complexity? In this presentation we'll go over the basics of the Operator framework and dive deeper into how you can easily develop your own operators. In the biggest part we'll focus on the use cases that Operators can streamline, such as easier deployment, management, upgrades, day-2 operations, built-in compliance and more. We'll then explore the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) and how Operators can be distributed and managed. Finally, we'll see a decision framework to help decide whether you need an operator and what problems you need it to solve.