Ketan Jani is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on Kubernetes infrastructure at scale. He served on the CNCF KubeCon Europe 2026 and KubeCon India 2026 Program Committees and is an IEEE Senior Member. He writes in his individual capacity, sharing his personal views and not affiliated with or representing his employer.
Ten Years of the Operator Pattern: What We Got Right, What We’d Change
CoreOS introduced the operator pattern in November 2016, and nearly a decade later operators are everywhere. Almost every CNCF graduated project ships one, every database vendor offers one, and every platform team ...
