slaptain

A Kubernetes operator for a multi-site, multi-master replicating OpenLDAP cluster.

slaptain manages the lifecycle of an OpenLDAP cluster on Kubernetes: cluster bootstrap, N-way multi-master replication within a site and between sites, databases, schemas and ACLs as custom resources, backup and restore.

A spare-time project of the chuck-chuck-chuck.net maintainers. Still early and experimental, if less so than it was: it has been presented at LDAPCon 2026 and has had a first round of review from subject-matter experts. Not all of that feedback is implemented yet.

Talk at LDAPCon 2026, Tübingen — slaptain: A Kubernetes Operator for Multi-Site Multi-Master OpenLDAP. Slides: in the browser · PDF · source