diff --git a/caffeine-bounded-cache-support/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/processing/event/source/cache/sample/AbstractTestReconciler.java b/caffeine-bounded-cache-support/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/processing/event/source/cache/sample/AbstractTestReconciler.java
index 9d912986e1..10ab50138a 100644
--- a/caffeine-bounded-cache-support/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/processing/event/source/cache/sample/AbstractTestReconciler.java
+++ b/caffeine-bounded-cache-support/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/processing/event/source/cache/sample/AbstractTestReconciler.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public List<EventSource<?, P>> prepareEventSources(
 
     var es = new InformerEventSource<>(
         InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(ConfigMap.class, primaryClass())
-            .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c.withItemStore(boundedItemStore))
+            .withItemStore(boundedItemStore)
             .withSecondaryToPrimaryMapper(
                 Mappers.fromOwnerReferences(context.getPrimaryResourceClass(),
                     this instanceof BoundedCacheClusterScopeTestReconciler))
diff --git a/docs/content/en/docs/features/_index.md b/docs/content/en/docs/features/_index.md
index 12528d3a7e..de49abe2b5 100644
--- a/docs/content/en/docs/features/_index.md
+++ b/docs/content/en/docs/features/_index.md
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ public class WebappReconciler
     
    @Override
     public Map<String, EventSource> prepareEventSources(EventSourceContext<Webapp> context) {
-        InformerConfiguration<Tomcat> configuration =
+      InformerEventSourceConfiguration<Tomcat> configuration =
                 InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(Tomcat.class, Tomcat.class)
                         .withSecondaryToPrimaryMapper(webappsMatchingTomcatName)
                         .withPrimaryToSecondaryMapper(
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ fabric8 Kubernetes client class, that will listen for events associated with the
 you configured your `InformerEventSource` with. If you want to listen to Kubernetes resource
 events, `InformerEventSource` is probably the only thing you need to use. It's highly
 configurable so you can tune it to your needs. Take a look at
-[InformerConfiguration](https://github.com/java-operator-sdk/java-operator-sdk/blob/main/operator-framework-core/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/api/config/informer/InformerConfiguration.java)
+[InformerEventSourceConfiguration](https://github.com/operator-framework/java-operator-sdk/blob/main/operator-framework-core/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/api/config/informer/InformerEventSourceConfiguration.java)
 and associated classes for more details but some interesting features we can mention here is the
 ability to filter events so that you can only get notified for events you care about. A
 particularly interesting feature of the `InformerEventSource`, as opposed to using your own
diff --git a/operator-framework-core/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/api/config/informer/InformerEventSourceConfiguration.java b/operator-framework-core/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/api/config/informer/InformerEventSourceConfiguration.java
index d0ee1f1cf0..c3c2777049 100644
--- a/operator-framework-core/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/api/config/informer/InformerEventSourceConfiguration.java
+++ b/operator-framework-core/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/api/config/informer/InformerEventSourceConfiguration.java
@@ -2,17 +2,26 @@
 
 import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Optional;
-import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.GenericKubernetesResource;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.HasMetadata;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.informers.cache.ItemStore;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.config.Informable;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.GroupVersionKind;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.PrimaryToSecondaryMapper;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.SecondaryToPrimaryMapper;
+import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.filter.GenericFilter;
+import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.filter.OnAddFilter;
+import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.filter.OnDeleteFilter;
+import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.filter.OnUpdateFilter;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.source.informer.Mappers;
 
+import static io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.Constants.SAME_AS_CONTROLLER_NAMESPACES_SET;
+import static io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.Constants.WATCH_ALL_NAMESPACE_SET;
+import static io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.Constants.WATCH_CURRENT_NAMESPACE_SET;
+
 public interface InformerEventSourceConfiguration<R extends HasMetadata>
     extends Informable<R> {
 
@@ -145,12 +154,6 @@ private Builder(Class<R> resourceClass,
       this.config = InformerConfiguration.builder(resourceClass);
     }
 
-    public Builder<R> withInformerConfiguration(
-        Consumer<InformerConfiguration<R>.Builder> configurator) {
-      configurator.accept(config);
-      return this;
-    }
-
     public Builder<R> withName(String name) {
       this.name = name;
       config.withName(name);
@@ -187,6 +190,79 @@ public SecondaryToPrimaryMapper<R> getSecondaryToPrimaryMapper() {
       return secondaryToPrimaryMapper;
     }
 
+    public Builder<R> withNamespaces(Set<String> namespaces) {
+      config.withNamespaces(namespaces);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withNamespacesInheritedFromController() {
+      withNamespaces(SAME_AS_CONTROLLER_NAMESPACES_SET);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withWatchAllNamespaces() {
+      withNamespaces(WATCH_ALL_NAMESPACE_SET);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withWatchCurrentNamespace() {
+      withNamespaces(WATCH_CURRENT_NAMESPACE_SET);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the associated informer should track changes made to the parent
+     * {@link io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.Controller}'s namespaces configuration.
+     *
+     * @param followChanges {@code true} to reconfigure the associated informer when the parent
+     *        controller's namespaces are reconfigured, {@code false} otherwise
+     * @return the builder instance so that calls can be chained fluently
+     */
+    public Builder<R> withFollowControllerNamespacesChanges(boolean followChanges) {
+      config.withFollowControllerNamespacesChanges(followChanges);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withLabelSelector(String labelSelector) {
+      config.withLabelSelector(labelSelector);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withOnAddFilter(
+        OnAddFilter<? super R> onAddFilter) {
+      config.withOnAddFilter(onAddFilter);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withOnUpdateFilter(
+        OnUpdateFilter<? super R> onUpdateFilter) {
+      config.withOnUpdateFilter(onUpdateFilter);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withOnDeleteFilter(
+        OnDeleteFilter<? super R> onDeleteFilter) {
+      config.withOnDeleteFilter(onDeleteFilter);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withGenericFilter(
+        GenericFilter<? super R> genericFilter) {
+      config.withGenericFilter(genericFilter);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withItemStore(ItemStore<R> itemStore) {
+      config.withItemStore(itemStore);
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public Builder<R> withInformerListLimit(Long informerListLimit) {
+      config.withInformerListLimit(informerListLimit);
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public void updateFrom(InformerConfiguration<R> informerConfig) {
       if (informerConfig != null) {
         final var informerConfigName = informerConfig.getName();
diff --git a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/clusterscopedresource/ClusterScopedCustomResourceReconciler.java b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/clusterscopedresource/ClusterScopedCustomResourceReconciler.java
index 3be5a055d7..dd3316f8fc 100644
--- a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/clusterscopedresource/ClusterScopedCustomResourceReconciler.java
+++ b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/clusterscopedresource/ClusterScopedCustomResourceReconciler.java
@@ -63,8 +63,7 @@ public List<EventSource<?, ClusterScopedCustomResource>> prepareEventSources(
         InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(ConfigMap.class, ClusterScopedCustomResource.class)
             .withSecondaryToPrimaryMapper(
                 Mappers.fromOwnerReferences(context.getPrimaryResourceClass(), true))
-            .withInformerConfiguration(
-                c -> c.withLabelSelector(TEST_LABEL_KEY + "=" + TEST_LABEL_VALUE))
+            .withLabelSelector(TEST_LABEL_KEY + "=" + TEST_LABEL_VALUE)
             .build(),
         context);
     return List.of(ies);
diff --git a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/createupdateeventfilter/CreateUpdateEventFilterTestReconciler.java b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/createupdateeventfilter/CreateUpdateEventFilterTestReconciler.java
index 041021cf68..4ec65f5673 100644
--- a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/createupdateeventfilter/CreateUpdateEventFilterTestReconciler.java
+++ b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/createupdateeventfilter/CreateUpdateEventFilterTestReconciler.java
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ public List<EventSource<?, CreateUpdateEventFilterTestCustomResource>> prepareEv
     InformerEventSourceConfiguration<ConfigMap> informerConfiguration =
         InformerEventSourceConfiguration
             .from(ConfigMap.class, CreateUpdateEventFilterTestCustomResource.class)
-            .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c
-                .withLabelSelector("integrationtest = " + this.getClass().getSimpleName()))
+            .withLabelSelector("integrationtest = " + this.getClass().getSimpleName())
             .build();
+
     final var informerEventSource =
-        new InformerEventSource<ConfigMap, CreateUpdateEventFilterTestCustomResource>(
+        new InformerEventSource<>(
             informerConfiguration, context);
     this.configMapDR.setEventSource(informerEventSource);
 
diff --git a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/filter/FilterTestReconciler.java b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/filter/FilterTestReconciler.java
index 22a9bc7067..add0075a3b 100644
--- a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/filter/FilterTestReconciler.java
+++ b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/filter/FilterTestReconciler.java
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ public List<EventSource<?, FilterTestCustomResource>> prepareEventSources(
 
     final var informerConfiguration = InformerEventSourceConfiguration
         .from(ConfigMap.class, FilterTestCustomResource.class)
-        .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c.withOnUpdateFilter((newCM,
+        .withOnUpdateFilter((newCM,
             oldCM) -> !newCM.getData().get(CM_VALUE_KEY)
-                .equals(CONFIG_MAP_FILTER_VALUE)))
+                .equals(CONFIG_MAP_FILTER_VALUE))
         .build();
     InformerEventSource<ConfigMap, FilterTestCustomResource> configMapES =
         new InformerEventSource<>(informerConfiguration, context);
diff --git a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/informerremotecluster/InformerRemoteClusterReconciler.java b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/informerremotecluster/InformerRemoteClusterReconciler.java
index 9246e0bbd5..30735dd880 100644
--- a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/informerremotecluster/InformerRemoteClusterReconciler.java
+++ b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/informerremotecluster/InformerRemoteClusterReconciler.java
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ConfigMap;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectMetaBuilder;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
-import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.config.informer.InformerConfiguration;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.config.informer.InformerEventSourceConfiguration;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.Context;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.ControllerConfiguration;
@@ -57,8 +56,7 @@ public List<EventSource<?, InformerRemoteClusterCustomResource>> prepareEventSou
             Mappers.fromDefaultAnnotations(InformerRemoteClusterCustomResource.class))
         // setting remote client for informer
         .withKubernetesClient(remoteClient)
-        .withInformerConfiguration(
-            InformerConfiguration.Builder::withWatchAllNamespaces)
+        .withWatchAllNamespaces()
         .build(), context);
 
     return List.of(es);
diff --git a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/multiplesecondaryeventsource/MultipleSecondaryEventSourceReconciler.java b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/multiplesecondaryeventsource/MultipleSecondaryEventSourceReconciler.java
index 77a3b245b0..12ebf45c8c 100644
--- a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/multiplesecondaryeventsource/MultipleSecondaryEventSourceReconciler.java
+++ b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/multiplesecondaryeventsource/MultipleSecondaryEventSourceReconciler.java
@@ -70,12 +70,8 @@ public List<EventSource<?, MultipleSecondaryEventSourceCustomResource>> prepareE
 
     var config = InformerEventSourceConfiguration
         .from(ConfigMap.class, MultipleSecondaryEventSourceCustomResource.class)
-        .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c
-            // TODO: this shouldn't be needed since this should be the default behavior (tracking
-            // the controller's namespaces)
-            .withNamespaces(
-                context.getControllerConfiguration().getInformerConfig().getNamespaces())
-            .withLabelSelector("multisecondary"))
+        .withNamespacesInheritedFromController()
+        .withLabelSelector("multisecondary")
         .withSecondaryToPrimaryMapper(s -> {
           var name =
               s.getMetadata().getName().subSequence(0, s.getMetadata().getName().length() - 1);
diff --git a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/primarytosecondary/JobReconciler.java b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/primarytosecondary/JobReconciler.java
index b0f369817e..fdca997f7d 100644
--- a/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/primarytosecondary/JobReconciler.java
+++ b/operator-framework/src/test/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/baseapi/primarytosecondary/JobReconciler.java
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.config.informer.InformerConfiguration;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.config.informer.InformerEventSourceConfiguration;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.*;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.processing.event.ResourceID;
@@ -71,8 +70,7 @@ public List<EventSource<?, Job>> prepareEventSources(EventSourceContext<Job> con
                 .byIndex(JOB_CLUSTER_INDEX, indexKey(cluster.getMetadata().getName(),
                     cluster.getMetadata().getNamespace()))
                 .stream().map(ResourceID::fromResource).collect(Collectors.toSet()))
-            .withInformerConfiguration(
-                InformerConfiguration.Builder::withNamespacesInheritedFromController);
+            .withNamespacesInheritedFromController();
 
     if (addPrimaryToSecondaryMapper) {
       informerConfiguration = informerConfiguration.withPrimaryToSecondaryMapper(
diff --git a/sample-operators/webpage/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/sample/WebPageReconciler.java b/sample-operators/webpage/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/sample/WebPageReconciler.java
index 56b66fbfb3..a687929b22 100644
--- a/sample-operators/webpage/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/sample/WebPageReconciler.java
+++ b/sample-operators/webpage/src/main/java/io/javaoperatorsdk/operator/sample/WebPageReconciler.java
@@ -43,25 +43,25 @@ public List<EventSource<?, WebPage>> prepareEventSources(EventSourceContext<WebP
     var configMapEventSource =
         new InformerEventSource<>(
             InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(ConfigMap.class, WebPage.class)
-                .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c.withLabelSelector(SELECTOR))
+                .withLabelSelector(SELECTOR)
                 .build(),
             context);
     var deploymentEventSource =
         new InformerEventSource<>(
             InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(Deployment.class, WebPage.class)
-                .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c.withLabelSelector(SELECTOR))
+                .withLabelSelector(SELECTOR)
                 .build(),
             context);
     var serviceEventSource =
         new InformerEventSource<>(
             InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(Service.class, WebPage.class)
-                .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c.withLabelSelector(SELECTOR))
+                .withLabelSelector(SELECTOR)
                 .build(),
             context);
     var ingressEventSource =
         new InformerEventSource<>(
             InformerEventSourceConfiguration.from(Ingress.class, WebPage.class)
-                .withInformerConfiguration(c -> c.withLabelSelector(SELECTOR))
+                .withLabelSelector(SELECTOR)
                 .build(),
             context);
     return List.of(configMapEventSource, deploymentEventSource,