An ECD Patch is meant to provide a flexible option to define and provision Kubernetes objects that suit your system architecture, or to tailor the ECD to their preferred flavor.
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Note!
An ECD Patch is NOT the same as using the kubectl patch command. Although they are conceptually similar, they do not necessarily behave in the same way.
Introduction
The ECD patch functionality enables you to add, change, and remove certain fields and functionality that might not be supported directly in the ECD specification, from the different Kubernetes objects created by the Operator through the ECD specification. The patch and patchType fields are part of the ECD CRD structure.
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