nodered-operator

README

Node-RED Operator

This is currently work in progress, and yet in a brainstorming phase where i'm discovering how a cloud-native integration of Node-RED could look like.

IDEAS

• CRD for Flows
• CRD for nodes, so nodes can be installed via CR! Makes automatic installation maybe easier? -> Could also be done via config, check if it's a good idea
• Auto restart node-red if necessary, i.e. when this nasty popup is shown
• high-level config for certain things (eg values),and snippets/mixins to add arbitrary config
• sidecars
• specific loggig config/support ?
• context store config
• credential store secret
• secrets, user ref/ secrets via...? direct vault, msft vault, .. ?
• module/package CRD

TODO

• Technical admin user for Operator to talk to node-red api
• delete modules if module CR is removed. finalizer?

Development

Generate stuff:

make
make generate
make manifests

Run locally (some things may not work, as the operator tries to communicate with Node-RED instances via in-cluster networking):

make run

Build+Push img:

make docker-build docker-push IMG=ghcr.io/birdayz/nodered-operator:latest

Deploy:

kubectl apply -k config/default