operator-sdk generate bundle

    Running ‘generate bundle’ is the first step to publishing your operator to a catalog and deploying it with OLM. This command both generates and packages files into an on-disk representation of an operator called a bundle. A bundle consists of a ClusterServiceVersion (CSV), CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs), manifests not part of the CSV but required by the operator, some metadata (annotations.yaml), and a bundle.Dockerfile to build a bundle image.

    There are two ways to pass the to-be-bundled set of manifests to this command: stdin via a Unix pipe, or in a directory using ‘–input-dir’. See command help for more information on these modes. Passing a directory is useful for running ‘generate bundle’ outside of a project or within a project that does not use kustomize and/or contains cluster-ready manifests on disk.

    If ‘–output-dir’ is set and you wish to build bundle images from that directory, either manually update your bundle.Dockerfile or set ‘–overwrite’.