Operators

Integrating Kubernetes and Vault: The options

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Tomasz Bartosiewicz

Over the years, we have observed several common issues when it comes to Kubernetes secret management by our clients. Very often the problems start even before the secrets get to the required application. Lack of strong company-wide security policies results in passing plain text secrets through emails or private chats which eventually find their place in service configuration files on GitHub in plain text (sounds familiar?!). Kubernetes’ secrets can solve part of the problem, however, it is far from a perfect solution due to:

What’s the point of Operators and CRDs? A seasonal reflection

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Geoff Macartney

It is that time of year when our thoughts naturally turn to pondering the things in life that truly matter. Like Kubernetes Operators, for instance. What’s the point of Operators and CRDs? Searching around for a definition, you find many websites that tell you something along the lines that an operator is a way of extending the API of Kubernetes, or a method of packaging and deploying an application. But so what? Why is this a good thing? How would I explain the value of Operators to someone myself?