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.