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We’ve been running a virtual event this week to explain the capabilities of IBM’s Cloud Pak for Integration.

One of these is Event Streams, so I gave an overview of the Event Streams Operator.

But what it really reminded me is that I miss going to conferences and tech events. I don’t want to sound ungrateful for what I’m sure has been a huge amount of work for event organisers in the pivot to online events. It’s great that we can still do events at all, and that organisers are still trying out ways to make it interactive, to enable panels and Q&A sessions.

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Installing operators in Red Hat OpenShift from the CLI is much easier with the new kubectl-operator plugin. Here’s an example of how you can use it to install the Event Streams Operator.

Installing operators in OpenShift from the CLI is a little fiddly. It’s possible, but you have to create a bunch of custom resources that aren’t entirely intuitive, like Subscriptions and OperatorGroups.

It’s easy if you’re using the OpenShift Console web UI, as it does this all for you so you don’t need to worry about it. But sometimes you want to do things from the command line. And the new kubectl-operator plugin looks like it’ll make that much simpler.

I had a quick play with it this evening, and it let me get the Event Streams operator running with three commands. (Compare this with the OpenShift Console web UI equivalent in my Event Streams demo video).

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I needed to quickly record a demo of what it looks like to get started with Event Streams yesterday.

It’s a little rough around the edges (it was only for an internal event, so the production values were essentially me-talking-at-my-laptop without a lot of planning or editing) but I thought I’d share it here in case I need to point anyone else at it.