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OKD 4 support for operators


Kubernetes is an open source project (or even a framework), while OpenShift is a product that comes in many variants. There’s an open source version of OpenShift which is called OKD.

Does OKD-4 provide full access to users to Operators for installing databases like mongoDB, HDFS, elasitcSearch, janusgraph . Or these operators are supported out of the box only in licensed Openshift Container platform and not in open source OKD?


Solution

  • It depends, every operator which is opensource can be used in OKD

    But in OCP there are also some operators which coming with a redhat openshift subscription, they are not opensourced, but mostly you will find an upstream operator project on github

    example: OpenShift Virtualization Operator 2.6.5 provided by Red Hat

    you can look for the upstream opensource project and use this on OKD, because this is redhats DNA: Kubevirt Operator https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/download/v0.43.0/kubevirt-operator.yaml

    Basically, if you find an operator on github for the type of application you want to deploy, you can do this on OKD.