11-16, 15:25–15:55 (UTC), The Theater
Learn how Ansible can help developers quickly ramp up to build Operators to automate and manage the life cycle of complex Kubernetes applications.
Operators simplify management of complex applications on Kubernetes. They are usually written in Go and require expertise with the internals of Kubernetes. But, there's an alternative to that with a lower barrier to entry. Ansible is a first class citizen in the Operator SDK. Using Ansible frees up application engineers, maximizes time to automate and orchestrate your applications, and doing it across new & existing platforms with one simple language. Here we see how.
Timothy Appnel is a Senior Product Manager, product evangelist and "Jack of all trades" on the Ansible team at Red Hat. Tim is an old-timer in the Ansible community that has been contributing since version v0.5. The synchronize module in Ansible is all his fault.