Infrastructure/OpenShift

Background

We want to stand up at least a proof of concept OpenShift instance in Fedora infrastucture. There's a number of reasons for this, inclusing (but not limited to):

• A chance to stay on the leading edge of tech
• Ability to deploy things that are expecting to be deployed in OpenShift
• Allow us to change/improve our deployment workflow
• Save resources by moving applications into pods instead of vm's.
• Help dogfood software our primary sponsor makes and give them feedback.
• Reduce required sysadmin/ops cycles for application deployment/updating.

Outstanding questions

Deploy questions

• OpenShift Origin or OpenShift Container platform?
• Install to vms or bare metal?
• Atomic host or Normal?
• RHEL or Fedora?
• How many: controllers, nodes, routers?
• Storage? NFS? gluster?
• Databases: in or outside?
• Setup things with ansible? what level? just the OpenShift? Any/all apps? Changing things like replicants?
• Keep proxy network haproxy -> openshift apps?

Policy Questions

• All rpms?
• Trigger builds from git? Just some branches?
• Does prod vs stg vs dev distrinction exist anymore?
• Do freezes exist anymore?
• whats the workflow?

git commit upstream -> build -> test -> deploy (slowly) ? git commits upstream on release branch -> build -> test -> deploy (slowly)? new rpm package -> build -> test -> deploy (slowly)?

• CI? when and where?
• "alive tests" ?
• what monitoring do we do on instances/apps?

Initial apps

• what initial apps would be good to move to it?