17CUSTOM RESOURCES AND OPERATORS
We’ve seen many different resource types used in a Kubernetes cluster to run container workloads, scale them, configure them, route network traffic to them, and provide storage for them. One of the most powerful features of a Kubernetes cluster, however, is the ability to define custom resource types and integrate these into the cluster alongside all of the built-in resource types we’ve already seen.
Custom resource definitions enable us to define any new resource type and have the cluster track corresponding resources. We can use this capability to add complex new behavior to our cluster, such as automating the ...
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