6.2.4. API differences

Binding to provisioned services

Yes

Yes

Not applicable (N/A)

Direct secret projection

Yes

Yes

Not applicable (N/A)

Bind as files

Yes

Yes

Bind as environment variables

Yes

Yes

Selecting workload with a label selector

Yes

Yes

Not applicable (N/A)

Detecting binding resources (.spec.detectBindingResources)

Yes

No

The servicebinding.io API group has no equivalent feature.

Naming strategies

Yes

No

There is no current mechanism within the servicebinding.io API group to interpret the templates that naming strategies use.

Container path

Yes

Partial

Because a service binding of the binding.operators.coreos.com API group can specify mapping behavior within the ServiceBinding resource, the servicebinding.io API group cannot fully support an equivalent behavior without more information about the workload.

Container name filtering

No

Yes

The binding.operators.coreos.com API group has no equivalent feature.

Secret path

Yes

No

The servicebinding.io API group has no equivalent feature.

Alternative binding sources (for example, binding data from annotations)

Yes

Allowed by Service Binding Operator

The specification requires support for getting binding data from provisioned services and secrets. However, a strict reading of the specification suggests that support for other binding data sources is allowed. Using this fact, Service Binding Operator can pull the binding data from various sources (for example, pulling binding data from annotations). Service Binding Operator supports these sources on both the API groups.