Open Source Summit Europe 2022

In this workshop, we will focus our talk on Kubernetes native applications aka ‘Operators’. We hope to bring resources to cloud native learners as we share our own story as Junior Software Engineers trying to navigate the cloud native world, from creating frontend web applications to Kubernetes native applications. To reinforce the knowledge we gained, we found hands-on learning was a necessary supplement, so this tutorial workshop is an extended version of our operator presentation that provides hands-on labs for attendees to experiment and create an operator. During our recent excursion to Cloud Native Rejekts, we were faced with the constant question, “Why Operators?”. In this workshop, we hope to provide a more simplified explanation as to what Operators are, where they come from, why they exist, who should use them, why applications can benefit from an Operator, and how we hope to enable the community to continue exploring all the capabilities an Operator provides.