Kubernetes Operators

Chapter 10. Getting Involved

All of the components in the Operator Framework, including the Operator SDK, Operator Lifecycle Manager, and Operator Metering, are still in the early stages of their lifespans. There are a variety of ways to contribute to their development, ranging from something as simple as submitting a bug report to becoming an active developer.

One of the simplest ways of interacting with both users and developers of the Operator Framework is through its Special Interest Group, or SIG. The SIG uses a mailing list to discuss topics including upcoming release information, best practices, and user questions. The SIG is free to join from their website.

For more direct interaction, the Kubernetes Slack team is an active community of users and developers. The “kubernetes-operators” channel in particular covers topics related to this book.

The Operator Framework GitHub organization contains the project repositories for each of its components. There are also a variety of supplemental repositories, such as the Operator SDK Samples repository, that further help with Operator development and usage.

Feature Requests and Reporting Bugs

One of the simplest ways, albeit an extremely valuable one, of getting involved with the Operator Framework is to submit bug reports. The framework project teams use GitHub’s built-in issue tracking to triage and fix outstanding issues. You can find the tracker for each specific project under the Issues tab on the GitHub project page. For example, ...