Make the Installation Process of Cloudflow Components Testable about cloudflow HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks for the suggestion and the offer to help @eschizoid. We really appreciate it.

We are currently looking into what it would take to build end-to-end integration testing support for Cloudflow, and Terraform is on the discussion list for automating cluster creation and other tasks.

We have a meeting planned for next week (Jan. 27th-30th 2020) to discus this and other installer-related topics. Some decisions made there could have an impact on this issue so I hope I can tell you more after that.

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Hi @eschizoid . It took a little longer to get back to you on this. apologies for the delay.

During our team meeting we have made some decisions for the future that will impact the suggestions you made in this issue. In brief, we decided to:

1. open source our "enterprise installer" (see below)
2. start work on automated end-to-end testing capabilities

Currently, we support two installers. The OSS installer is a simplified version of our original installer but in the mean time we have developed a new installer that is based on the operator pattern, e.g. a Cloudflow installation can be expressed as a Kubernetes Custom Resource (CR) and then the installation operator will take care of everything from inside the cluster. We then wrap that in a very simple CLI for asking a few questions to create the CR so you can just type cloudflow install.

That new installer was original thought to be an enterprise feature but it is clear that that doesn't make a lot of sense since everybody needs a great installation experience. so we will be working on open sourcing that in the Q1 2020 timeframe.

Next to that there will still be a need to verify that an installation has succeeded. Some of that will be built into the installation operator itself, e.g. an installation either succeeds or it doesn't and the operator knows this state and makes it available as a status field on the installation CR.

We are also planning to start work on automated end-to-end testing for Cloudflow, from cluster creation to installation and app deployment, to ensure that no changes to master break any parts of the chain. That will definitely take us some more time but we plan to start by publishing the design proposal so you guys can help us get there faster.

I hope this explains where we are going with the installer and its testability. Please do let us know if you have any questions about this stuff!

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@agemooij Thanks for sharing this information, happy to hear all this great news!

I can't wait to see the design proposal and start helping :)

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The installation process has changed considerably, closing this now

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