The senior tells are level-triggered reconciliation and finalizer semantics. The partition question separates people who have written a controller from people who have installed one.
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Databases will be provisioned by a Kubernetes Operator. What must the reconcile loop get right, and what when it cannot reach the API?
The senior tells are level-triggered reconciliation and finalizer semantics. The partition question separates people who have written a controller from people who have installed one.
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