Self-Service Databases, Queues, Caches, and Other Resources in OpenChoreo
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OpenChoreo v1.1 shipped recently, and one of the headline features is resource abstractions: a way to treat managed infrastructure like databases, queues, and caches as first-class, declarative dependencies of a workload. Platform engineers publish reusable ResourceType templates. Developers self-serve a Resource from one of those templates (picking the type, filling in only the parameters they care about) and wire its outputs into their Workload, the same way they already reference other components' endpoints.
This post walks through the model, the new CRDs that back it, and a real example you can install: a small collaborative document editor called Doclet that depends on Postgres and NATS.
