On August 5, 2025, Apollo announced the public preview of its new GraphOS Operator, designed to simplify the management of GraphQL deployments within Kubernetes environments. This tool aims to streamline the development process by providing out-of-the-box best practices for managing GraphQL, reducing the effort required for setting up progressive deployments, rollbacks, and ephemeral development environments. It offers teams the flexibility to manage their GraphQL operations either declaratively, through Kubernetes resources, or via UI-based management with GraphOS Studio, aligning with their preferences. The operator supports cloud and on-premise Kubernetes deployments and integrates with popular observability and deployment tools like Datadog and Argo CD. The introduction of this operator is a step towards Apollo's vision of making GraphQL operations in Kubernetes more efficient and robust, with future updates expected to enhance capabilities such as canary deployments, fast rollbacks, and self-healing router instances.