2.3. Support policy for unmanaged Operators
The management state of an Operator determines whether an Operator is actively managing the resources for its related component in the cluster as designed. If an Operator is set to an unmanaged state, it does not respond to changes in configuration nor does it receive updates.
While this can be helpful in non-production clusters or during debugging, Operators in an unmanaged state are unsupported and the cluster administrator assumes full control of the individual component configurations and upgrades.
An Operator can be set to an unmanaged state using the following methods:
Individual Operator configuration
Individual Operators have a
managementStateparameter in their configuration. This can be accessed in different ways, depending on the Operator. For example, the Cluster Logging Operator accomplishes this by modifying a custom resource (CR) that it manages, while the Cluster Samples Operator uses a cluster-wide configuration resource.Changing the
managementStateparameter toUnmanagedmeans that the Operator is not actively managing its resources and will take no action related to the related component. Some Operators might not support this management state as it might damage the cluster and require manual recovery.警告Changing individual Operators to the
Unmanagedstate renders that particular component and functionality unsupported. Reported issues must be reproduced inManagedstate for support to proceed.Cluster Version Operator (CVO) overrides
The
spec.overridesparameter can be added to the CVO’s configuration to allow administrators to provide a list of overrides to the CVO’s behavior for a component. Setting thespec.overrides[].unmanagedparameter totruefor a component blocks cluster upgrades and alerts the administrator after a CVO override has been set:Disabling ownership via cluster version overrides prevents upgrades. Please remove overrides before continuing.
警告Setting a CVO override puts the entire cluster in an unsupported state. Reported issues must be reproduced after removing any overrides for support to proceed.
