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This document covers high level objectives, benefits, and distribution
opportunities for Operators created by Red Hat partners and open source
communities.

Introduction

Operator Developer Guide

Red Hat strongly believes that Operators provide the best Day 1 and Day 2 management experience for modern applications. Red Hat’s goal is twofold:

1. Provide a set of tools to build high quality Operators that fulfill the promise of hybrid cloud
2. Provide a discovery and distribution method to connect Red Hat customers with partners that solve the customer’s business problem(s) with Operators. Red Hat needs you – as the expert in your arena – to make our customers successful.

Table of Contents

Operator Background/Benefits

• Service Operator
• Platform Operator
• Resource Operators
• Full Solutions

Desired Customer Experience

Building an Operator

Distributing an Operator with Red Hat

• Community Operator
• Red Hat Partner
• Certification Requirements

OperatorHub

• Upgrading your Operator over-the-air

Appendix

Example Special Resource Operator Workflow