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Published inJan 2024
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Ross Brigoli
Ross Brigoli
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Ross Brigoli

Ross Brigoli is a consulting architect at Red Hat, where he focuses on designing and delivering solutions around microservices architecture, DevOps, and MLOps with Red Hat OpenShift for various industries. He has two decades of experience in software development and architecture.
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Faisal Masood
Faisal Masood
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Faisal Masood

Faisal Masood is a cloud transformation architect at AWS. Faisal's focus is to assist customers in refining and executing strategic business goals. Faisal main interests are evolutionary architectures, software development, ML lifecycle, CD and IaC. Faisal has over two decades of experience in software architecture and development.
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Understanding operators

In traditional organizations, specialized and dedicated teams were required to maintain applications and other software components such as databases, caches, and messaging components. Moreover, those teams were continuously observing the software ecosystem and doing specific things, such as taking backups for databases, upgrading and patching newer versions of software components, and more.

Operators in Kubernetes are like system administrators or human operators, continuously monitoring applications running on the Kubernetes environment and performing operational tasks associated with the specific component. In summary, an operator extends Kubernetes to automate the management of the complete life cycle of an application. For example, a PostgreSQL operator automates the database’s high availability, installation, patching, and backup abilities, to name a few. Many operators are available for various software components, such as databases, caches,...

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Published in: Jan 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805120230

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Ross Brigoli

Ross Brigoli is a consulting architect at Red Hat, where he focuses on designing and delivering solutions around microservices architecture, DevOps, and MLOps with Red Hat OpenShift for various industries. He has two decades of experience in software development and architecture.
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Faisal Masood

Faisal Masood is a cloud transformation architect at AWS. Faisal's focus is to assist customers in refining and executing strategic business goals. Faisal main interests are evolutionary architectures, software development, ML lifecycle, CD and IaC. Faisal has over two decades of experience in software architecture and development.
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