Making your operator part of a catalog

The operator-registry project defines a format for storing sets of operators and exposing them to make them available on a cluster. The simplest way to test that your package can be added to a catalog is by actually attempting to create a catalog that includes your operator.

To create a catalog that includes your package, simply build a container image that uses the operator-registry command line tools to generate a registry and serve it. For example, create a file in the root of your project called registry.Dockerfile

FROM quay.io/operator-framework/upstream-registry-builder as builder

COPY manifests manifests
RUN ./bin/initializer -o ./bundles.db

FROM scratch
COPY --from=builder /build/bundles.db /bundles.db
COPY --from=builder /build/bin/registry-server /registry-server
COPY --from=builder /bin/grpc_health_probe /bin/grpc_health_probe
EXPOSE 50051
ENTRYPOINT ["/registry-server"]
CMD ["--database", "bundles.db"]

This Dockerfile assumes that your package is in a directory called ./manifests/ similar to this example. It copies your manifests into the builder image, runs initializer, then copies the output into the final scratch image and defines the run command to serve the operator-registry.

Then just use your favorite container tooling to build the container image and push it to a registry:

docker build -t example-registry:latest -f registry-Dockerfile .
docker push example-registry:latest

Your catalog is published and we are ready to use it on your cluster.