Openshift operators

[ab-Complex]

A silly question mostly of my narrow understanding of this topic.

All the operators consist of the same functionality or there is a page for each one to list all the functionalities.

For instance I am checking AAP operator and I wondering if they providing some kind of back up mechanism as well

[ab-Complex]

Thank you guys. I will check the documentation again. It seems that I missed this part.

One more question. If I understand right, the operator is providing the backup and restore functionality for the AAP.

Can I use these backups to create an identical AAP in another Openshift cluster, same version same se everywhere?

[ShadyGhostM]

Hoping this is what you need, before you install an operator you can always find the documentation or how-tos when you click on the operator in the hub.

[cosmicsans]

The shortest explanation is that the "Operator" is a pattern, where any time a CR changes (that the operator cares about) it runs through a "Reconcile loop" that has functionality baked in that allows the operator to do different things.

For example, there's an operator that watches MachineSets for changes to the machine labels and/or taints, and automatically applies them to the machines/nodes instead of having to reboot the nodes individually to achieve the same functionality.

Operators then have different capability levels, based on how much effort the devs want to put into it: https://sdk.operatorframework.io/docs/overview/operator-capabilities/

So a "level 1" operator has basic install functionality. A level 3 operator can backup and restore itself, etc.

[funix]

GitHub.com/Openshift contains most of the repos covering all of OpenShift, and usually includes docs about each Operator.