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I agree you do not want to be running half baked operators on your cluster, but clouds like Amazon’s and Google’s have shown it is possible to harness open source software like ElasticSearch and successfully run it on behalf of customers.

It will take time for these to harden, but it eventually will since the primitives are all there.

That said, a very significant issue that the public clouds don’t face is the team creating the operator in aws / gcp’s case is the one running it and they fully understand exactly the configuration the operator will be deployed to.

With helm and operators designed for public consumption by other companies, the amount of generality needed will be higher, at least until the conformance tests for a kubernetes implantation get more detailed and there is ci/cd between the operators and charts running on clusters that better mirror various Kubernetes deployment choices.