Hlbo

In the last post of my Backup Operator series, I lamented the state of permissions in the kopf Kubernetes Operator framework. After some thinking, I decided to go ahead with kopf and just accept the permission/RBAC ugliness. I’ve just finished implementing the first cluster state change in the operator, so I thought this is a good place to write a post about my approach and setup. The journey up to now has been pretty interesting....

As I’ve mentioned in my last k8s migration post, I’m working on writing a Homelab backup operator for my Kubernetes cluster. And I’ve run into some RBAC/permission issues I can’t quite figure out. So let’s see whether writing about it helps. 🙂 First, a short overview of the plan. I’m using the kopf framework to build a Kubernetes operator. This operator’s main goal is to handle HomelabServiceBackup resources. These will contain a list of PersitentVolumeClaims and S3 buckets which need to be backed up....