This page contains a comprehensive list of Operators scraped from OperatorHub, Awesome Operators and regular searches on Github. We also add a subjective status field that’s useful for people considering what to use in production.
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| Type | Operator | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autoscaling | HPA Operator | Beta | Horizontal Pod Autoscaler operator for Kubernetes. Annotate, and let HPA operator do the rest. |
| Autoscaling | Cluster Autoscaler | Beta | Manage Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler deployments |
| Autoscaling | Valence | Beta | Rightsize and Autoscale Containers Intelligently for Performance and Cost Management in Kubernetes: A SLO Autoscaler |
| Autoscaling | Draino | Beta | Automatically cordon and drain Kubernetes nodes based on node conditions |
| Autoscaling | Descheduler | Beta | Descheduler, based on its policy, finds pods that can be moved and evicts them |
| Autoscaling | Osiris | Alpha | |
| Autoscaling | Spot Rescheduler | Beta | 1 |
| Backup | Velero | Production | git clone https://github.com/bibinwilson/kubernetes-prometheus |
| Backup | Kanister | Beta | Kanister is an extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes |
| Big Data | Airflow | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator to manage Apache Airflow. |
| Big Data | MXNet | Alpha | Apache MXNet is a modern open-source deep learning framework used to train, and deploy deep neural networks. This operator manages the tools for ML/MXNet on Kubernetes. |
| Big Data | Spark (GCP) | Alpha | Kubernetes CRD operator for specifying and running Apache Spark applications idiomatically on Kubernetes. |
| Big Data | Spark (radanalytics.io) | Beta | ConfigMap-based operator for deploying ephemeral Apache Spark clusters and intelligent applications that spawn their own Spark clusters natively on Kubernetes and OpenShift. |
| Big Data | Tensorflow | Beta | Tools for ML/Tensorflow on Kubernetes. |
| Big Data | PyTorch | Beta | PyTorch on Kubernetes |
| Cleanup | Kured | Beta | Node reboot daemon |
| Cleanup | Pod Reaper | Beta | A kubernetes operator that reaps pods that have reached their lifetime |
| Cleanup | Kube Cleanup Operator | Beta | Kubernetes Operator to automatically delete completed Jobs and their Pods |
| Cleanup | Feature Branch Janitor | Alpha | Kubernetes operator used to cleanup feature branch deployments when branch has been deleted |
| Cleanup | Delete NS | Beta | Delete a Kubernetes Namespace thats older than some hours |
| Cleanup | Jamadar | Beta | A kubernetes controller which cleans up cluster left-overs |
| Column Database | Cassandra (instaclustr) | Alpha | Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed wide column store NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data. This is a Kubernetes operator for Apache Cassandra. |
| Column Database | Cassandra (vgkowski) | Alpha | Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed wide column store NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data. This ia a Kubernetes operator for Cassandra cluster automation. |
| Column Database | DynamoDB | Alpha | Amazon DynamoDB is a proprietary NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data structures. This is a Kubernetes operator for DynamoDB |
| Deployment | Keel | Beta | Kubernetes Operator to automate Helm, DaemonSet, StatefulSet & Deployment updates |
| Deployment | Flux | Beta | The GitOps Kubernetes operator |
| Deployment | Environment Operator | Beta | Kubernetes Environment Management |
| Deployment | Chart Operator | Alpha | The chart-operator deploys Helm charts by reconciling against a CNR registry. |
| Deployment | Helm Controller | Alpha | Watches HelmChart CRD's in a namespace and manages chart installation using Kubernetes jobs |
| Deployment | Wave | Alpha | Kubernetes configuration tracking controller |
| Deployment | Faros | Alpha | Faros is a CRD based GitOps controller |
| Deployment | Eunomia | Beta | GitOps Operator for Kubernetes |
| Deployment | Quack | Beta | In-Cluster templating for Kubernetes manifests |
| Deployment | Kube Applier | Beta | enables automated deployment and declarative configuration for your Kubernetes cluster. |
| Deployment | Namespace Configuration | Alpha | The namespace configuration operator helps keeping a namespace's configuration aligned with one of more policies specified as a CRs. |
| Document Database | CouchDB | Alpha | Prototype Kubernetes operator for couchDB |
| Document Database | Mongo (kbst) | Alpha | MongoDB Operator for Kubernetes |
| Document Database | Mongo (ultimaker) | Beta | MongoDB Operator for MongoDB Replica Sets and Backups |
| Document Database | MongoDB (Official) | Beta | MongoDB Enterprise Operator for Kubernetes |
| Document Database | MongoDB (Percona) | Beta | A Kubernetes operator for Percona Server for MongoDB |
| Document Database | RethinkDB | Beta | RethinkDB is a free and open-source, distributed document-oriented database. This is a Kubernetes operator to manage RethinkDB instances. |
| Document Database | Couchbase (official) | Production | This is a paid product from Couchbase |
| Graph Database | ArangoDB | Beta | ArangoDB Kubernetes Operator. Start ArangoDB on Kubernetes in 5min. |
| IaaS | svcat | Beta | Service Catalog is a Kubernetes extension API that enables applications running on Kubernetes clusters to connect with service brokers and easily use external managed software offerings. For example, Service Catalog can connect to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Service Broker and easily provision GCP services. |
| IaaS | AWS (Giant Swarm) | Production | Manages Giantnetes Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon Web Services |
| IaaS | CloudFormation | Alpha | AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon Web Services resources. Using this operator run and manage CloudFormation stacks and manage AWS resources from Kubernetes. |
| IaaS | KubeVirt | Beta | Kubernetes Virtualization Operator with API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines |
| IaaS | OpenStack | Beta | SAP OpenStack operator creates various resources in OpenStack |
| IaaS | VPC Peering | Beta | A Kubernetes Operator to manage the lifecycle of AWS VPC Peering Connections |
| IaaS | AWS Service Operator (official) | Alpha | AWS Service Operator allows you to create AWS resources using kubectl |
| IaaS | Azure Operator (Giant Swarm) | Production | Azure operator manages Kubernetes clusters running in Giantnetes on Azure |
| IaaS | GCP Operator (paulczar) | Alpha | GCP operator for Kubernetes |
| Java | WebLogic | Production | Oracle Weblogic Server Kubernetes Operator |
| Java | WildFly | Alpha | Wildfly Operator let's you describe and deploy JEE application on Wildfly server by creating a Custom Resource Definitions in Kubernetes. |
| KV Database | Aerospike | Alpha | Aerospike is a NoSQL distributed database. This Operator manages Aerospike clusters atop Kubernetes, automating their creation and administration. |
| KV Database | Consul | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator for consul |
| KV Database | etcd | Beta | etcd is a distributed key-value (k/v) store. This operator manages etcd k/v database clusters on Kubernetes. |
| KV Database | Infinispan | Alpha | Infinispan is a distributed in-memory key/value data store. This operator deploys and runs an Infinispan cache cluster. |
| KV Database | Memcached | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator for memcached |
| KV Database | Redis (spotahome) | Alpha | Redis Operator creates/configures/manages redis clusters atop Kubernetes |
| KV Database | Redis (jw-s) | Beta | Redis operator for Kubernetes |
| KV Database | Redis Cluster | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator for running Redis in Cluster mode |
| Lucene Database | ElasticSearch (UPMC) | Beta | Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine. This operator manages one or more elastic search clusters on Kubernetes. |
| Lucene Database | ElasticSearch (Elastic) | Alpha | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes automates the deployment, provisioning, management, and orchestration of Elasticsearch and Kibana |
| Mobile | Android SDK | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator to manage android sdk packages syncronization in a persistent volume |
| Mobile | Unifiedpush | Beta | UnifiedPush Server is a server that allows sending push notifications to different (mobile) platforms |
| Monitoring | Icinga2 Operator | Production | Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring application. This operator provide alerts for Kubernetes |
| Monitoring | Jaeger (official) | Production | Jaeger Operator for Kubernetes |
| Monitoring | Logging Operator | Alpha | Logging operator for Kubernetes based on Fluentd and Fluent-bit |
| Monitoring | FluentD Operator | Production | Auto-configuration of Fluentd daemon-set based on Kubernetes metadata |
| Monitoring | Prometheus | Beta | Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true. The Prometheus Operator for Kubernetes provides easy monitoring definitions for Kubernetes services and deployment and management of Prometheus instances. |
| Monitoring | Prometheus Jmx Exporter | Alpha | This operator using Jmx Exporter enables Java processes running ok Kubernetes Pods to expose metrics collected form mBeans via JMX to Prometheus. |
| Monitoring | InfluxDB (official) | Alpha | InfluxDB is an open-source time series database. This is the Kubernetes operator for InfluxDB and the TICK stack. |
| Monitoring | Sens8 | Beta | Kubernetes controller for Sensu checks |
| Monitoring | Alerting Rules | Beta | Kubernetes Operator for teams to create there own alerting rules as CRDs |
| Monitoring | Grafana | Alpha | Grafana Operator for Kubernetes |
| Monitoring | Chronologist | Beta | Continuously annotate Helm releases in Grafana |
| Monitoring | Ingress Monitor | Beta | Kubenetes Operator to create external monitors for selected Ingresses e.g. with Statuscake |
| Monitoring | M3DB (official) | Alpha | Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Metrics Platform |
| Monitoring | Dynatrace | Beta | Kubernetes/Openshift Operator for managing Dynatrace OneAgent deployments |
| Networking | IPAM Operator | Alpha | An operator to assign IP for Kubernetes Namespace. |
| Networking | External DNS | Beta | Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services |
| Networking | Flannel | Beta | The flannel-operator handles flannel for Kubernetes clusters running on Giantnetes |
| Other | KVM | Production | Handles Kubernetes clusters running on a Kubernetes cluster with workers and masters in KVMs on bare metal |
| Other | KubeDB | Beta | KubeDB Operator. Managed a lot of major databases on Kubernetes |
| Other | Habitat | Beta | A Kubernetes operator for Habitat services |
| Other | MultiCluster-Controller | Beta | Multicluster-controller is a Go library for building Kubernetes controllers that need to watch resources in multiple clusters |
| Other | Service Level Operator | Beta | Manage application's SLI and SLO's easily with the application lifecycle inside a Kubernetes cluster |
| Other | Kube Replay | Alpha | Seamless integration of goReplay and Kubernetes |
| Other | Kubechain | Beta | A simple blockchain implementation on top of kubernetes |
| Other | OpenFaaS | Beta | Operator for OpenFaaS Functions on Kubernetes |
| Other | RSS Operator | Beta | A Kubernetes Operator for managing and recovering replicated workflows |
| Other | Jenkins | Alpha | Kubernetes operator for Jenkins CI |
| Other | Jira | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator to manage JIRA instances. |
| Other | Gitea | Beta | An Operator that installs Gitea. |
| Proxy | Envoy | Beta | Envoy is a Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway, API Middleware or in some cases Service Mesh)Run and manage Envoy on Kubernetes simply and securely. |
| Proxy | Kong | Alpha | Manages Kong clusters on Kubernetes. |
| Proxy | OAuth2 Proxy | A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github, and other OIDC providers | |
| Queue | Kafka (krallistic) | Alpha | A Kafka Operator for Kubernetes |
| Queue | Kafka (strimzi) | Beta | Operator for running Kafka and Kafka Connect on Kubernetes and OpenShift |
| Queue | NATS | Beta | NATS is an open-source, high-performance, lightweight and secure cloud native messaging system. This operator manages NATS clusters atop Kubernetes, automating their creation and administration. |
| Queue | RocketMQ | Alpha | Create, operate and scale self-healing Rocketmq clusters on Kubernetes. |
| Relational Database | MySQL (grtl) | Alpha | MySQL is an Open Source SQL database management system. This creates a Kubernetes Custom Resource for MySQL. |
| Relational Database | MySQL (Oracle) | Alpha | MySQL is an Open Source SQL database management system. This operator creates, operates, and scales self-healing MySQL clusters in Kubernetes |
| Relational Database | MySQL (Presslabs) | Beta | MySQL is an Open Source SQL database management system. This operator manages all the necessary resources for deploying and managing a highly available MySQL cluster. It provides efortless backups, while keeping the cluster highly-available. |
| Relational Database | MySQL Operator (Banzai Cloud) | Alpha | Create, operate and scale self-healing MySQL clusters in Kubernetes. |
| Relational Database | PostgreSQL (Crunchy Data) | Production | PostgreSQL Operator Creates/Configures/Manages PostgreSQL Clusters on Kubernetes |
| Relational Database | PostgreSQL (Zalando) | Production | Create and manage PostgreSQL HA clusters on Kubernetes using Patroni |
| Relational Database | RDS | Alpha | Operator to control RDS DBs in AWS |
| Relational Database | TiDB (aliyx) | Alpha | Tidb-operator creates/configures/manages tidb clusters atop Kubernetes |
| Relational Database | TiDB (Pingcap) | Beta | TiDB operator creates and manages TiDB clusters running in Kubernetes |
| Relational Database | Vitess | Beta | Vitess Operator provides automation that simplifies the administration of Vitess clusters on Kubernetes |
| Relational Database | Percona XtraDB Cluster | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster based on the Operator SDK |
| Security | cert-manager | Beta | Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes |
| Security | rbacsync | Beta | Automatically sync groups in Googkle Cloud into Kubernetes RBAC |
| Security | RBAC Manager | Beta | This operator simplifies the management of RBAC Role Bindings in Kubernetes. |
| Security | Vault (CoreOS) | Beta | *This is now unmaintained*. See https://github.com/coreos/vault-operator/issues/332 |
| Security | Vault (Banzai Cloud) | Beta | Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets. This operator offers a feature rich HA Vault operator with TLS, external API based re/configuration, several/automatic unseal options and more. |
| Security | Gatekeeper (ReplicatedHQ) | Beta | Kubernetes Operator to manage Dynamic Admission Controllers using Open Policy Agent |
| Security | Gatekeeper (OPA) | Beta | Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes |
| Security | Network Policy | Beta | Auto create common network policy in all namespaces |
| Security | Regsecret | Beta | Kubernetes operator to automate imagePullSecrets creation |
| Security | Replicator | Alpha | Kubernetes operator that copy secrets in all namespaces |
| Security | Random Secret Operator | Beta | Creates Secrets containing random data |
| Security | lessor | Archived | A Kubernetes Operator for managing multi-tenant workloads |
| Security | Cert Operator | Beta | cert-operator creates/manages certificates for Kubernetes clusters running on Giantnetes |
| Security | SSO Operator | Production | Single Sign-On Kubernetes operator for Dex identity provider |
| Security | Dex | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator for Dex |
| Security | Falco | Alpha | Kubernetes operator for Sysdig Falco that allows developers to manage rules for detecting intruders and backdoors |
| Security | AWS Secret Operator | Alpha | A Kubernetes operator that automatically creates and updates Kubernetes secrets according to what are stored in AWS Secrets Manager |
| Security | Externalconfig Operator | Alpha | An operator to fetch configuration data from cloud services and inject it in Kubernetes |
| Security | Sealed Secrets | Beta | A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets |
| Security | Certmerge | Alpha | a Kubernetes Operator that can merge many TLS secrets inside one Opaque secrets |
| Service Discovery | ZooKeeper (Nuance Mobility) | Alpha | ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. This is an operator for ZooKeeper 3.5.x |
| Service Discovery | ZooKeeper (pravega) | Alpha | This operator runs a Zookeeper 3.5 cluster, and uses Zookeeper dynamic reconfiguration to handle node membership. |
| Service Mesh | Flagger | Beta | Istio progressive delivery Kubernetes operator |
| Service Mesh | Istio Operator | Beta | Istio-operator is a Kubernetes operator to deploy and manage Istio resources for a Kubernetes cluster. |
| Storage | PVC | Beta | This operator helps to use Kubernetes Persistent Volumes easier on cloud providers by dynamically creating the required accounts, classes and more. |
| Storage | Quobyte | Alpha | Quobyte’s next-generation file system unifies file, block and object storage for enterprise and scientific applications. |
| Storage | Rook | Alpha | File, Block, and Object Storage Services for your Cloud-Native Environment |
| Storage | Gluster | Alpha | A Kubernetes/OpenShift operator to manage Gluster clusters |
| Storage | Minio | Alpha | Minio Operator for k8s |
| Storage | Pravega | Alpha | Pravega Kubernetes Operator |
| Testing | Netperf | Alpha | This is a very simple operator that can be used to test network performance between 2 pods using the netperf tool. It is also a good operator for learning puposes, as the code base is pretty small and it's described in detail in this blog post. |
| Testing | Kaos | Alpha | Kinda Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes |
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