Getting started with Operator SDK for Java-based Operators

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To demonstrate the basics of setting up and running a Java-based Operator using tools and libraries provided by the Operator SDK, Operator developers can build an example Java-based Operator for Memcached, a distributed key-value store, and deploy it to a cluster.

Prerequisites

Creating and deploying Java-based Operators

You can build and deploy a simple Java-based Operator for Memcached by using the Operator SDK.

Procedure

  1. Create a project.

    1. Create your project directory:

      1. $ mkdir memcached-operator

    2. Change into the project directory:

      1. $ cd memcached-operator

    3. Run the operator-sdk init command with the quarkus plug-in to initialize the project:

      1. $ operator-sdk init \
      2.     --plugins=quarkus \
      3.     --domain=example.com \
      4.     --project-name=memcached-operator

  2. Create an API.

    Create a simple Memcached API:

    1. $ operator-sdk create api \
    2.     --plugins quarkus \
    3.     --group cache \
    4.     --version v1 \
    5.     --kind Memcached

  3. Build and push the Operator image.

    Use the default Makefile targets to build and push your Operator. Set IMG with a pull spec for your image that uses a registry you can push to:

    1. $ make docker-build docker-push IMG=<registry>/<user>/<image_name>:<tag>

  4. Run the Operator.

    1. Install the CRD:

      1. $ make install

    2. Deploy the project to the cluster. Set IMG to the image that you pushed:

      1. $ make deploy IMG=<registry>/<user>/<image_name>:<tag>

  5. Create a sample custom resource (CR).

    1. Create a sample CR:

      1. $ oc apply -f config/samples/cache_v1_memcached.yaml \
      2.     -n memcached-operator-system

    2. Watch for the CR to reconcile the Operator:

      1. $ oc logs deployment.apps/memcached-operator-controller-manager \
      2.     -c manager \
      3.     -n memcached-operator-system

  6. Clean up.

    Run the following command to clean up the resources that have been created as part of this procedure:

    1. $ make undeploy

Next steps