Subscription Config

Configuring Operators deployed by OLM

It is possible to configure how OLM deploys an Operator via the config field in the Subscription object.

Currently, OLM supports the following configurations:

Env

The env field defines a list of Environment Variables that must exist in all containers in the Pod created by OLM.

Note: Values defined here will overwrite existing environment variables of the same name.

Example

Increase log verbosity on an Operator's container that utilizes the ARGS variable:

kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: prometheus
spec:
  package: prometheus
  channel: alpha
  config:
    env:
    - name: ARGS
      value: "-v=10"

EnvFrom

The envFrom field defines a list of sources to populate Environment Variables in the container. The keys defined within a source must be a C_IDENTIFIER. All invalid keys will be reported as an event when the container is starting. When a key exists in multiple sources, the value associated with the last source will take precedence.

Note: Values defined by an Env with a duplicate key will take precedence.

Example

Inject a license key residing in a Secret to unlock Operator features:

kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: my-operator
spec:
  package: app-operator
  channel: stable
  config:
    envFrom:
    - secretRef:
        name: license-secret

Volumes

The volumes field defines a list of Volumes that must exist on the Pod created by OLM.

Note: Volumes defined here will overwrite existing Volumes of the same name.

VolumeMounts

The volumeMounts field defines a list of VolumeMounts that must exist in all containers in the Pod created by OLM. If a volumeMount references a volume that does not exist, OLM will fail to deploy the operator.

Note: VolumeMounts defined here will overwrite existing VolumeMounts of the same name.

Example

Mount a ConfigMap as a Volume that contains configuration information that can change default Operator behavior. Modifications to the content of the ConfigMap should appear within the container's VolumeMount.

kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: my-operator
spec:
  package: etcd
  channel: alpha
  config:
    volumes:
    - name: config-volume
      configMap:
        name: etcd-operator-config
    volumeMounts:
    - mountPath: /config
      name: config-volume

Tolerations

The tolerations field defines a list of Tolerations for the Pod created by OLM.

Note: Tolerations defined here will be appended to existing Tolerations, if not already present.

Example

Inject toleration to tolerate all taints.

kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: my-operator
spec:
  package: etcd
  channel: alpha
  config:
    tolerations:
    - operator: "Exists"

Resources

The resources field defines Resource Constraints for all the containers in the Pod created by OLM.

Note: Resource Constraints defined here will overwrite existing resource constraints.

Example

Inject a request of 0.25 cpu and 64 MiB of memory, and a limit of 0.5 cpu and 128MiB of memory in each container.

kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: my-operator
spec:
  package: etcd
  channel: alpha
  config:
    resources:
      requests:
        memory: "64Mi"
        cpu: "250m"
      limits:
        memory: "128Mi"
        cpu: "500m"

NodeSelector

The nodeSelector field defines a NodeSelector for the Pod created by OLM.

Example

Inject nodeSelector key-values pairs.

kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: my-operator
spec:
  package: etcd
  channel: alpha
  config:
    nodeSelector:
      foo: bar