Management cluster for cloud-native management of infra and applications

Proposers

• Gerardo García (Telefónica)
• Francisco Javier Ramón (Telefónica)
• Jayaprakash G (Tata Elxsi)
• Utkarsh Mishra (Tata Elxsi)
• Deepika E (Tata Elxsi)
• Sandhya J. S (Tata Elxsi)
• Priyadharshini S (Tata Elxsi)
• Shahithya Y (Tata Elxsi)
• Shrinithi R (Tata Elxsi)
• Ramesh Ramanathan (Tata Elxsi)

Reference

This feature is related to the long-term initiative presented in previous meetings:

• https://docbox.etsi.org/OSG/OSM/05-CONTRIBUTIONS/2023//OSM(23)000105_Telef_nica_s_Initiative_for_OSM_LTV.pptx
• https://docbox.etsi.org/OSG/OSM/05-CONTRIBUTIONS/2023//OSM(23)000081_Telef_nica_s_Initiative_proposal_for_Long_Term_View.pptx

The main purpose of the initiative is to use well known CRDs for new southbound operations (K8s clusters, PaaS/IaaS components, serverless workflows, Cluster API), relying on existing open source solutions such as Crossplane, FluxCD, ArgoCD, etc. These south-bound operations will be properly modeled and abstracted by OSM, which will provide a convenient user-facing modelling.

Description

This feature proposes the setup of a management cluster during OSM installation with a Continuous Deployment operator like FluxCD that will be used for advanced operations towards public and private clouds leveraging well-known CRDs/Operators.

Demo or definition of done

OSM installation will come bundled with a management cluster configured with a Continuous Deployment operator. All tests in OSM must pass and should not be affected by the changes in the installation to support that management cluster.