Creating and deploying Helm charts for Kubernetes workloads is straightforward, yet these charts often fall short of delivering customized controllers, native metrics, and the necessary scalability for handling complex business logic. Operator SDK provides guidelines to build advanced operators through five capability levels. In this workshop, we will be building a demo level 5 Operator, working our way up the implementation of each capability level one by one, guiding the attendees toward achieving a higher level of maturity for their applications. Participants will leave with a functional demo that shows a straightforward, lightweight, and effective operator development process, covering basic installation, metrics enablement, and finishing with an auto-pilot implementation.

Node.js applications are fast becoming more frequent and complex through Kubernetes deployments. With that being said, developers are more concerned about generating useful logs, gathering metrics, and thus maintaining the application with precise data about the performance baseline.
Therefore, to help developers enhance this instrumenting approach, the OpenTelemetry project leverages analytical capabilities by expanding the possibilities to collect and export telemetry data from Node.js applications.
In this talk, I will share an easy way how the audience can achieve the auto-instrumenting of a Node.js application using the OpenTelemetry Operator.