MarkReconciliationStarted updates the status of the Atlas Resource to indicate that the Operator has started working on it.

PrepareResource queries the Custom Resource 'request.NamespacedName' and populates the 'resource' pointer.

ReconciliationShouldBeSkipped returns 'true' if reconciliation should be skipped for this resource.

ResourceShouldBeLeftInAtlas returns 'true' if the resource should not be removed from Atlas on K8s resource removal.

ResourceVersionIsValid returns 'true' if current version of resource is <= current version of the operator.

SetAnnotation sets an annotation in resource while respecting the rest of annotations.

SetFinalizer Add the given finalizer to the list of resource finalizer.

UnsetFinalizer remove the given finalizer from the list of resource finalizer.