# Set the Operator SDK version to use. By default, what is installed on the system is used.
# This is useful for CI or a project to utilize a specific version of the operator-sdk toolkit.
OPERATOR_SDK_VERSION ?= v1.36.1-ocp
OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 supports Operator SDK 1.36.1. If you already have the 1.31.0 CLI installed on your workstation, you can update the CLI to 1.36.1 by installing the latest version.
The Red Hat-supported version of the Operator SDK CLI tool, including the related scaffolding and testing tools for Operator projects, is deprecated and is planned to be removed in a future release of OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat will provide bug fixes and support for this feature during the current release lifecycle, but this feature will no longer receive enhancements and will be removed from future OpenShift Container Platform releases. The Red Hat-supported version of the Operator SDK is not recommended for creating new Operator projects. Operator authors with existing Operator projects can use the version of the Operator SDK CLI tool released with OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 to maintain their projects and create Operator releases targeting newer versions of OpenShift Container Platform. The following related base images for Operator projects are not deprecated. The runtime functionality and configuration APIs for these base images are still supported for bug fixes and for addressing CVEs.
For the most recent list of major functionality that has been deprecated or removed within OpenShift Container Platform, refer to the Deprecated and removed features section of the OpenShift Container Platform release notes. For information about the unsupported, community-maintained, version of the Operator SDK, see Operator SDK (Operator Framework). |
However, to ensure your existing Operator projects maintain compatibility with Operator SDK 1.36.1, update steps are required for the associated breaking changes introduced since 1.31.0. You must perform the update steps manually in any of your Operator projects that were previously created or maintained with 1.31.0.
The following procedure updates an existing Helm-based Operator project for compatibility with 1.36.1.
Operator SDK 1.36.1 installed
An Operator project created or maintained with Operator SDK 1.31.0
Edit your Operator project’s Makefile to update the Operator SDK version to v1.36.1-ocp
, as shown in the following example:
# Set the Operator SDK version to use. By default, what is installed on the system is used.
# This is useful for CI or a project to utilize a specific version of the operator-sdk toolkit.
OPERATOR_SDK_VERSION ?= v1.36.1-ocp
Update the kube-rbac-proxy
container to use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9-based image:
Find the entry for the kube-rbac-proxy
container in the following files:
config/default/manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml
bundle/manifests/<operator_name>.clusterserviceversion.yaml
for your Operator project, for example memcached-operator.clusterserviceversion.yaml
from the tutorials
Update the image name in the pull spec from ose-kube-rbac-proxy
to ose-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9
, and update the tag to v4.16
:
ose-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9
pull spec with v4.16
image tag# ...
containers:
- name: kube-rbac-proxy
image: registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9:v4.16
# ...
Edit your Operator’s Dockerfile to update the ose-helm-rhel9-operator
image tag to 4.16
, as shown in the following example:
FROM registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-helm-rhel9-operator:v4.16
The kustomize/v2
plugin is now stable and is the default version used in the plugin chain when using go/v4
, ansible/v1
, helm/v1
, and hybrid/v1-alpha
plugins. For more information on this default scaffold, see Kustomize v2 in the Kubebuilder documentation.
If your Operator project uses a multi-platform, or multi-archicture, build, replace the existing docker-buildx
target with following definition in your project Makefile:
docker-buildx:
## Build and push the Docker image for the manager for multi-platform support
- docker buildx create --name project-v3-builder
docker buildx use project-v3-builder
- docker buildx build --push --platform=$(PLATFORMS) --tag ${IMG} -f Dockerfile .
- docker buildx rm project-v3-builder
You must upgrade the Kubernetes versions in your Operator project to use 1.29. The following changes must be made in your project structure, Makefile, and go.mod
files.
The |
Update your go.mod
file to upgrade your dependencies:
k8s.io/api v0.29.2
k8s.io/apimachinery v0.29.2
k8s.io/client-go v0.29.2
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime v0.17.3
Download the upgraded dependencies by running the following command:
$ go mod tidy
Update the Kustomize version in your Makefile by making the following changes:
- curl -sSLo - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases/download/kustomize/v5.2.1/kustomize_v5.2.1_$(OS)_$(ARCH).tar.gz | \
+ curl -sSLo - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases/download/kustomize/v5.3.0/kustomize_v5.3.0_$(OS)_$(ARCH).tar.gz | \
Upgrading projects for Operator SDK 1.31.0 (OpenShift Container Platform 4.15)