Canonical’s Open Operator Collection Now Supports Linux and Windows

Canonical has generalized its operator pattern to include traditional applications on Windows and Linux, providing a consistent model-driven operator framework for application management. The framework would be available to use in baremetal and virtual machines.

Canonical operators include declarative integration points that can be reused for automating integration between operators from various vendors. The integration code to handle dynamic integration during deployment is embedded in each operator, ensuring availability and security best practices throughout the process.

Canonical’s Juju, the cloud DevOps tool, works at a higher level than other similar programs with ‘charms,’ which are shareable, reusable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices.

All operators from the Open Operator Collection are open source and are not dependent on any proprietary infrastructure components.

The Juju OLM (Operator Lifecycle Manager) used by the Open Operator Collection goes beyond basic provisioning and lifecycle management capabilities. It enables model-driven architecture with event delivery, event serialization, persistent state, leader election, application status monitoring, application messages, and integration data exchange capabilities.