Hi! new to Airbyte, product looks very good! Is there any kubernetes operator that allows to manage connectors using kubernetes manifests?

Airbyte does not provide a Kubernetes operator to manage connectors using Kubernetes manifests directly. However, Airbyte can be deployed on Kubernetes and it allows scaling sync workloads horizontally using Kubernetes. The core components (api server, scheduler, etc) run as deployments while the scheduler launches connector-related pods on different nodes [source](https://docs.airbyte.com/deploying-airbyte/on-kubernetes-via-helm). To manage connectors, you can use the Airbyte UI or API. You can add custom connectors to the UI by providing the Docker coordinate of the custom connector from Dockerhub or any image repository that Airbyte can access [source](https://docs.airbyte.com/integrations/custom-connectors). If you want to use custom connectors in a Kubernetes deployment, you may need to authenticate your Kubernetes cluster to your private Docker registry. This involves creating a Secret in Kubernetes that hosts your authentication credentials and setting the

JOB_KUBE_MAIN_CONTAINER_IMAGE_PULL_SECRET

environment variable on the

airbyte-worker

pod [source](https://docs.airbyte.com/operator-guides/using-custom-connectors). For more detailed instructions on deploying Airbyte on Kubernetes, you can refer to the [official documentation](https://docs.airbyte.com/deploying-airbyte/on-kubernetes).

@kapa.ai - im sure you can build a kubernetes operator using the underlying airbyte api to create connectors and define them as native kubernetes manifests, right?