This project is a component of the Operator Framework, an open source toolkit to manage Kubernetes native applications, called Operators, in an effective, automated, and scalable way. Read more in the introduction blog post and learn about practical use cases at the OLM website. OLM extends Kubernetes to provide a declarative way to install, manage, and upgrade Operators and their dependencies in a cluster. Kubernetes clusters are being kept up to date using elaborate update mechanisms today, more often automatically and in the background. Operators, being cluster extensions, should follow that. OLM has a concept of catalogs from which Operators are available to install and keep up to date. In this model, OLM allows maintainers granular authoring of the update path and gives commercial vendors a flexible publishing mechanism using channels.
Features
- Over-the-Air Updates and Catalogs
- Dependency Model
- Discoverability
- Documentation available
- Cluster Stability
- Declarative UI controls
- Kubernetes-native Applications