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# platform-toolboxs
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Andre Marcelo-Tanner
06/20/2022, 12:32 PMGreat talks btw
Andre Marcelo-Tanner
06/20/2022, 12:34 PMQuestion, if a team is considering building its own Operator to deploy Applications in the unique way its Applications are configured with different tools, is that ideal?
Or should we all be using some kind of standard application Operator that most people on Kubernetes use?
For me I think the standard k8s resources are too complicated for developers at scale and you need to define a high level CRD to abstract that complexity away, but then should everyone be building Operators or is there a simpler more maintainable solution?
Can Kratix help with any of this?
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Dirk Jablonski
06/20/2022, 12:51 PMDepending on your actual needs, (curated) Helm charts might already be a simpler solution. But operators are also nice in some situations, but long-term maintenance is usually higher, so keep them for more complex scenarios.
Just my 2cc
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Andre Marcelo-Tanner
06/20/2022, 12:58 PMWe are using Helm Charts currently for templating and I think we’ve gone beyond simple for that. Not a fan of complex logic in templates.
Were currently considering the Operator SDK Helm Hybrid Operator as a bridge but as you mention the long term maintenance would be the catch there
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Colin Humphreys
06/20/2022, 2:11 PMKratix is made to make this simple. If you need to offer a high-level resource to your application teams, and create/orchestrate low-level resources (raw k8s, off-the-shelf operators, helm charts, non-K8s APIs) when the high-level resource is requested, Kratix is for you - especially if you use more than one Kubernetes cluster.
Colin Humphreys
06/20/2022, 2:11 PMApologies if this sounds like sales, it isn't: Kratix is entirely Apache2-licensed open source. The Kratix team would love feedback and collaborators.
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Andre Marcelo-Tanner
06/20/2022, 2:43 PMThanks it seems to be what I’m looking, do you have examples of how teams are using Kratix?
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Colin Humphreys
06/20/2022, 3:05 PMMost of our work has been with large-ish companies so we haven't published public case studies yet. Please feel free to DM me if you'd like a Zoom to talk through some examples we've seen in the wild. I won't be able to name the orgs but I can talk about the use cases. The same applies to anyone reading this: please DM me and we can arrange a time to chat if you're interested ☕
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