ECD Patch is meant to provide a flexible option for users to define and provision Kubernetes objects that suits their system architecture or to tailor the ECD to their preferred flavour.
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The ECD patch functionality is meant to enable users to add, change and remove certain fields and functionality from the different Kubernetes objects created by the Operator through the ECD specification, that might not be supported directly in the EDC specification.An ECD patch is the YAML that defined by the user which will be part of the payload sent by MZ Online to K8S API Server. The patch and patchType are part of the ECD CRD structure.
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