Software used to be installed using a manifest file in the form a shellscript. Then, the cloud-native container platform arrived, and the old way didn’t quite work for this next-generation application environment. A robust control plane was needed to manage the complexities of the myriad range of softwares throughout their various lifecyles, including patching and upgrade tasks.
There is increasing adoption of an automated, reusable means of managing cloud-native software, in Kubernetes Operator format, through an open-source framework, called the…
