In Kubernetes, all resources have a status field separated from their spec. The status field is an interface both for humans or applications to read the perceived state of the resource. When you deploy our Percona Kubernetes Operators   Percona Distribution for MongoDB Operator or Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator  in your Kubernetes cluster, [&]

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