Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) is part of the CNCF's Operator Framework project and a part of the Red Hat portfolio of cloud-native toolkit. Ansible is currently lacking any automation content of Operators using the OLM.

Proposed Solution

Ansible has substantial Helm support in kubernetes.core in addition to dozens of other package managers of all stripes, but does not have any support for Operators, an initiative strategic to Red Hat's OpenShift platform. 

The OLM extends Kubernetes to provide a declarative way to install, manage, and upgrade Operators and their dependencies in a cluster. Essentially it is the package manager for Kubernetes Operators.

NOTE: There might not be enough here to be its own standalone collection so it’s unclear where and how this content should be published.

Requirements

TBD

User Experience 

This solution should conform to the standard recommended Ansible practices. It should reduce the knowledge and time necessary to automate these use cases by abstracting implementation details and error handling and avoiding programming constructs at the play level with a concise declarative style interface. It should provide user conveniences such as reasonable parameter defaults and support of module defaults. The solution should also integrate with the Ansible Platform controller services such as its integrated credential management.

Documentation

The integrations and functionality described will require new documentation for each piece of content.

Use Cases

TBD