Bug 1888550

Summary:	[Doc] operator-sdk new command doesn't support the Golang type anymore
Product:	OpenShift Container Platform	Reporter:	Jian Zhang <jiazha>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Shubha Narayanan <snarayan>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Jian Zhang <jiazha>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Latha S <lmurthy>
Priority:	high
Version:	4.6	CC:	aos-bugs, jokerman, lmurthy
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Description Jian Zhang 2020-10-15 07:49:03 UTC

Document URL: 
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/operators/operator_sdk/osdk-getting-started.html#building-memcached-operator-using-osdk_osdk-getting-started


Section Number and Name: 

Building a Go-based Operator using the Operator SDK

Describe the issue: 
For 4.6, the operator-sdk version is v.0.19.x, But, it doesn't support the Golang type.
[root@preserve-olm-env example-inc]# operator-sdk version
operator-sdk version: "v0.19.4-5-gef0bc88", commit: "ef0bc885e40e6c86c0c079bea612b4eb908f6ec5", kubernetes version: "v1.18.2", go version: "go1.14 linux/amd64"

[root@preserve-olm-env example-inc]# operator-sdk new memcached-operator
Error: required flag(s) "type" not set
...
...
      --type string                 Type of operator to initialize (choices: "ansible" or "helm")
FATA[0000] required flag(s) "type" not set 

Suggestions for improvement: 
We can use the Helm or the Ansible type instead, or still use the Golang type by using the "operator-sdk init", but the following steps are need to be updates bigly. You can refer to the steps for Golang type: https://v0-19-x.sdk.operatorframework.io/docs/golang/quickstart/

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Comment 2 Shubha Narayanan 2021-09-30 06:57:31 UTC

This issue is already fixed in PR https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs/pull/31988 hence closing the bug.