Installation on Component Operator

Prerequisites

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Component-operator requires the Flux source controller to be installed in the cluster. It relies on Flux’s GitRepository, OCIRepository, Bucket, and HelmChart source types to fetch manifest artifacts. You can install just the source controller without the full Flux stack:

flux install --components source-controller

Alternatively, install the complete Flux toolkit if you plan to use other Flux features alongside component-operator:

flux install

Container Images

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OCI images for component-operator are published to the GitHub Container Registry alongside each release. You can browse all available images and versions on the GitHub Packages page.

The image reference is:

ghcr.io/sap/component-operator:<version>

Custom Resource Definitions can be downloaded separately as:

ghcr.io/sap/component-operator/crds:<version>

Replace <version> with the desired release tag (e.g. v0.12.0). Using latest is not recommended for production deployments.

Helm Chart

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The recommended way to install component-operator is via the official Helm chart. The chart source is hosted at github.com/SAP/component-operator/tree/main/chart and published to the GitHub OCI registry.

Installation

helm upgrade --install component-operator \
 oci://ghcr.io/sap/component-operator/charts/component-operator \
 --namespace flux-system

To pin to a specific version:

helm upgrade --install component-operator \
 oci://ghcr.io/sap/component-operator/charts/component-operator \
 --version <version> \
 --namespace flux-system

Refer to the chart documentation for the full list of available Helm values.

Note: if you want to deploy component-operator into a different namespace (instead of flux-system), then you have to allow the component-operator pod to access the source-controller running flux-system.