Helm Operator: Is it possible to ignore reconcilliation for specific deployed resources?

[jlopes-randoli]

Type of question

General operator-related help

Question

What did you do?

I have an operator that I am currently building using the helm chart conversion functionality in the operator-sdk chart.

What did you expect to see?

I have a ConfigMap in one of my sub-charts that i want to be deployed by the operator but I don't want to be constantly updated and reconciled by the Operator. This is because our main application that is deployed by the Operator modifies that ConfigMap as part of it's functionality.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

Under normal functionality using our Helm Chart, the ConfigMap is deployed, but our application is able to modify it and function properly. Using the Operator solution, whenever we modify that ConfigMap, it gets automatically reset by the Operator reconcilliation. Is there a way to turn off this logic specifically for this resource?

Environment

Operator type:

/language helm

Kubernetes cluster type:

OpenShift 4.17

$ operator-sdk version

v1.38.0

$ go version (if language is Go)

N/A

$ kubectl version

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"26", GitVersion:"v1.26.0", GitCommit:"b46a3f887ca979b1a5d14fd39cb1af43e7e5d12d", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-12-08T19:58:30Z", GoVersion:"go1.19.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Kustomize Version: v4.5.7
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"30", GitVersion:"v1.30.11", GitCommit:"2923986f090bc719c0222d96de0bc4c83bede985", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2025-04-01T21:05:04Z", GoVersion:"go1.22.12 (Red Hat 1.22.12-1.el9_5) X:strictfipsruntime", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

Additional context

[jlopes-randoli]

Closing as we decided to go ahead with an alternative solution.