[jhoelzel]

- creating databases for your app on the fly.

- scaling up and down applications because of time instead of demand. or based on non metric based actions

- Extending kubernetes to understand your workload

- Automating configuration and management of complex applications

- Managing legacy applications that cannot be easily containerized or migrated to the cloud.

if you love k8s youll love operators

the list is endless!

[dilyevsky]

With respect, being “in love” with a technology is not a good way to go about it - it leads to tunnel vision

[jhoelzel]

i know what you mean, but i am doing this for more than 20 years now. From bare-metal over openstack to serverless, i have pretty much provisioned all of them.

Kubernetes is more like a way of doing things than a technology. Basically APIs all the way down. and thus the operators and controllers do deserve love.

Im not saying that you need an operator to change the dipers of a baby, but as far as a stack goes, k8s is the best i have ever worked with.