Quickstart for Helm-based Operators

• Go through the installation guide.
• User authorized with permissions.
• An accessible image registry for various operator images (ex. , quay.io) and be logged in in your command line environment.
  • example.com is used as the registry Docker Hub namespace in these examples. Replace it with another value if using a different registry or namespace.

1. Create a project directory for your project and initialize the project:

1. Create a simple nginx API using Helm’s built-in chart boilerplate (from helm create):

operator-sdk create api --group demo --version v1alpha1 --kind Nginx

1. Build and push your operator’s image:

1. Install :

1. Bundle your operator, then build and push the bundle image (defaults to example.com/nginx-operator-bundle:v0.0.1):

make bundle IMG="example.com/nginx-operator:v0.0.1"
make bundle-build bundle-push

1. Create a sample Nginx custom resource:

1. Uninstall the operator:

operator-sdk cleanup nginx-operator

Direct deployment

1. Deploy your operator:

make deploy IMG="example.com/nginx-operator:v0.0.1"

1. Create a sample Nginx custom resource:

1. Uninstall the operator:

make undeploy