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= Understanding Service Binding Operator
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Application developers need access to backing services to build and connect workloads. Connecting workloads to backing services is always a challenge because each service provider suggests a different way to access their secrets and consume them in a workload. In addition, manual configuration and maintenance of this binding together of workloads and backing services make the process tedious, inefficient, and error-prone.

The {servicebinding-title} enables application developers to easily bind workloads together with Operator-managed backing services, without any manual procedures to configure the binding connection.

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include::modules/sbo-key-features.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

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== Additional resources
* xref:../../applications/connecting_applications_to_services/getting-started-with-service-binding.adoc#getting-started-with-service-binding[Getting started with service binding]