How to handle Operators

[aceeric]

Hello @ChristofferNissen I'm asking a question here in response to helm/helm#13455 (comment)

Do you (how do you) handle the Operator pattern. E.g.:

1. Install the MinIO Operator
2. Deploy a MinoIO Tenant Resource
3. The Operator creates Deployment / StatefulSet resources with image refs that are (typically) embedded in Go code

In our crude brute-force approach we provision a single-node cluster, install all the workloads for which we want images, then install resources that trigger operators to do their thing (e.g. MinIO), then we snapshot the containerd cache.

Is this something you've discovered a clever solution for? Thank you.