Memcached Operator

A Kubernetes operator for managing Memcached clusters, built with Operator SDK (Go) and controller-runtime.

Container images are published to GHCR:

ghcr.io/c5c3/memcached-operator:latest

Part of the CobaltCore (C5C3) ecosystem — a Kubernetes-native OpenStack distribution for operating Hosted Control Planes on bare-metal infrastructure.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at https://c5c3.github.io/memcached-operator/ and covers:

• Architecture Overview — design principles, reconciliation loop, CobaltCore context
• Installation — prerequisites, local development, cluster deployment
• CRD Reference — complete field reference for the Memcached custom resource
• Examples — basic, HA, TLS, and production configurations
• Troubleshooting — common issues and diagnostics

Quick Start

# Install CRDs
make install

# Run the operator locally (connects to current kubeconfig context)
make run

# In another terminal, create a Memcached instance
kubectl apply -f config/samples/memcached_v1alpha1_memcached.yaml

# Verify
kubectl get memcached

See the Installation guide for cluster deployment and production setup.

License

Apache 2.0