Epic: Service Provider CRD Lifecycle Management

[christophrj]

Understand the Epic

Verify how Service Providers control the lifecycle of CRDs and implement dedicated upgrade checks and CRD lifecycle management.

An upgrade check could be anything as simple as maintaining a list of breaking version changes based on manual assessment to more sophisticated algorithms.

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Context / Background

Service Provider need to ensure that user requested version changes of a managed domain service do not result in irrepairable deployments caused by API changes between the currently deployed and newly requested domain service version.

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What is required to accept the Epic as finished.

• Service Providers implement version upgrade checks
• Service Providers block version upgrade if the corresponding upgrade check fails
• Service Provider CRD lifecycle management is added to the list of Service Provider Quality Criteria
• Existing Service Providers maintained by SIG extensibility have been updated accordingly

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Any further valuable resources.

• API changes of SIG architecture
• Controlling the lifecycle of CRDs of Flux HelmReleases