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An ever-increasing number of enterprises leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to containerize and manage with their applications and deliver new enhancements to their end users. Nonetheless, application cluster admins regularly battle with authoring, releasing and managing applications on top of Kubernetes. To make this simpler, Google have published a lot of Kubernetes Operators to its marketplace center that incorporates best practices and start to finish answers for explicit applications.

For instance, Operators automate the making of core resources such as pods, containers, persistent volumes, services, etc., just as workload resources including deployments and statefulsets, and empower application-explicit visibility and orchestration.

Google has worked with the Kubernetes open-source network in the Apps Special Interest Group (SIG) to familiarize and institutionalize an Application asset that characterizes the different assets inside an application and oversees them as a group.

The Application asset incorporates a standard API for creating, viewing, and managing applications in Kubernetes, making it simple to perform health checks, do garbage collection, and manage application dependencies.

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In addition, it gives a standard mechanism to view and manage applications on the GKE UI and other UI dashboards.

Palak Bhatia, Product Manager, Google Cloud, quoted, “Creating, configuring and deploying apps to run on top of Kubernetes doesn’t have to be hard. Operators simplify the process of deploying many common applications directly from the GCP Marketplace and CLI, and if you can’t find what you need, you can build it yourself. Check out GCP Marketplace for the full catalog of pre-configured Kubernetes apps that are ready to deploy into your cluster today.”

Kubernetes applications on GCP Marketplace recently became generally available and are an excellent place to find ISV-supported Operators.

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Operators by Google

In addition to helping define the application standard, Google has also created several critical Operators. These highlight the possibilities of being able to extend Kubernetes, as well as demonstrate best practices for authoring and managing the lifecycle of a Kubernetes application.

· Java Operator

· Spark Operator

· Airflow Operator

· Building your own Operator

Automatic updates for your Kubernetes apps

To simplify the management experience, Managed Updates on GCP Marketplace lets users easily update and auto-roll back your Kubernetes apps with health checks. Now, user no longer need to stop their applications, search for the right patches and releases, verify and validate them and finally manually update them. With Managed Updates, Google have update applications for the latest features and security patches, removing significant operational burden. Google are working with partners on GCP Marketplace to enable seamless updates of their applications.