OLM and Bundle CLI Overview

This document gives an overview of using operator-sdk to work with Operator manifests related to OLM, namely bundles and package manifests. See the manifests generation doc for an in-depth discussion of these commands.

Commands

OLM installation

The following operator-sdk subcommands manage an OLM installation:

• olm install: install a particular version of OLM.
• olm status: check the status of a particular version of OLM running in a cluster. This command can infer the version of an error-free OLM installation.
• olm uninstall: uninstall a particular version of OLM running in a cluster. This command can infer the version of an error-free OLM installation.

Manifests and metadata

The following operator-sdk subcommands create or interact with Operator package manifests and bundles:

Bundles

• generate bundle: creates a new or updates an existing bundle in the deploy/olm-catalog/<operator-name> directory. This command handles generating both manifests and metadata.
• bundle validate: validates an Operator bundle image or unpacked manifests and metadata.

Package Manifests

• generate packagemanifests: creates a new or updates an existing versioned directory as part of the package manifests in the deploy/olm-catalog/<operator-name> directory.
• run packagemanifests: runs an Operator’s package manifests format with an existing OLM installation.

Last modified July 8, 2020: docs: OLM integration docs reference new commands (new and legacy CLI) (#3320) (ec03835e)