Tutorial: Becoming a Kubernetes Developer: Writing Your First Operator - Abby Bangser, Syntasso

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Tutorial: Becoming a Kubernetes Developer: Writing Your First Operator - Abby Bangser, Syntasso
Speakers: Abby Bangser
Kubernetes is effectively a blank canvas which we as engineers need to compose into a shape and style that fits our needs. This nearly always starts with running software through deployments. While this can get us started, many of our high value use cases require more complex compositions. Operators provide engineers a way to extend the building blocks of Kubernetes to build higher level abstractions. These abstractions can codify complex setup requirements, standardise capabilities across an organisation, and more. An example of operators at work include the Prometheus operator. This helps teams get started with monitoring and alerting with packaging and providing sensible defaults across an array of associated tools including Prometheus (for metric gathering), Thanos (for metric retention), Alertmanager (for alerts), and Grafana (for graphing). In this workshop we will build a basic operator which will enable a hands on exploration into use cases and structures of operators in more depth.

[@VeggieTanuki]

For anyone watching this, there isn't much value beyond the first ~12 minutes of this. The remainder is purely live audience learning with occasional questions being answered. I would skip this if you're looking for a tutorial on how to build a Kubernetes operator.

[@hamzamasood703]

What is the point of this video when the website isnt even available???
Absolute waste of my time.

[@SyntassoAbby]

I appreciate that was frustrating. However I am not sure what you mean by the website as the course website is still available as per my comment above. Though the Instruqt course can be made available on demand, it is also important to note my long lived site has the full code for you to go through on our own computer.

[@riyashussain7406]

Yeah, missed the instruqt by few days after kubecon (Shrug)

[@eldadyamin]

Thank you for sharing the session!
Unfortunately, the content on Instruqt is not longer available (October 27 until November 3).
Any chance that you can publish that again?

[@riyashussain7406]

Same here :(

[@438516819]

For yall who's saying the instruqt course is not available, yes it's true. However you can use the "track" in the repo provided, and go through each step on any k8s cluster you have kubectl access to. I did that, and yes it was helpful on understanding a simple k8s operator. Thank you @SyntassoAbby

[@DhananjaySharma-in]

waste of time

[@jhonsen9842]

One Word Comment "LOL"

[@marcusaurelius6607]

wtf is this