operators

It’s a few days in to the holiday shutdown at work, so I’ve been enjoying some downtime with my family at home. There’s been plenty of last-minute shopping, gift wrapping, baking, and, evidently, building operators with the Operator SDK. For the unaquainted, the Operator Framework is a toolkit that makes it easy to manage complex applications on top of Kubernetes. While I’ve had the chance to use the Go SDK for a few projects, I’ve recently been reading more about Ansible operators. Ansible operators allow you use Ansible roles to configure an application and respond to any changes to its Kubernetes resources. An Ansible operator allows you to handle complex scenarios just like the Go SDK, but lets you use the familiar Ansible syntax (no Go code required) and take advantage of the large Ansible module ecosystem. While operators are designed to manage resources inside Kubernetes, they also do a great job at managing resources outside of the cluster such as TLS certificates or even external monitoring checks. As I was thinking of a good first Ansible operator, I looked up from my couch and saw my Christmas tree. I already had many of my Christmas lights integrated with Home Assistant, so why not take advantage of the easy-to-use REST API and automate my Christmas lights? ...