[Community] Update on Operate First community cloud

Forwarding this message on behalf of the Emerging Technology team: The engineers responsible for maintaining the infrastructure supporting the Operate First community cloud, clusters Smaug and Infra, have undergone a shift in responsibilities. This has led to a decision by the team to power down the OpenShift clusters and the supporting infrastructure behind the Operate First community cloud. The shutdown is scheduled for April 15, 2023 . For community projects needing rehosting, compute may be available for your project via the New England Research Cloud (NERC) <https://nerc.mghpcc.org/>;, which is a part of the MOC Alliance at https://massopen.cloud/. Questions and migration help are available via the Operate First project at the contact locations below. The team is available to help with migrations to the NERC, as well as using cloud credits for Red Hat OpenShift Service on Amazon (ROSA). While the compute hosting functionality of the Operate First community cloud will no longer be available, its code and documentation will continue to be accessible at the following locations: - Operate-First.cloud <https://operate-first.cloud> - Operate First GitHub <https://github.com/operate-first> The Prow instance associated with the https://github.com/operate-first/apps repository will still be available, allowing for continued use of the repository. Red Hat stands behind Operate First and its key set of principles <https://www.operate-first.cloud/blog/operate-first-operate-open-governanc... and we will continue delivering code and documentation to help implement them. Due to the way in which project applications have been defined using GitOps, once a platform such as NERC or ROSA is chosen, OpenShift GitOps and ArgoCD can be used to re-deploy your application similar to how it is defined in the Operate First community cloud. Contact Locations To contact the Operate First project team helping with migrations, you can find them on Operate-first.slack.com on #community-cloud and on the weekly SIG Community call <https://www.operate-first.cloud/community/sig-community/README.html#meeti... held on Thursdays at 10 am Pacific/17:00 UTC. Additional information can be found here <https://www.operate-first.cloud/community/community-cloud-faq>;. -- Karsten Wade [he/him/his] | Principal Community Architect | @quaid Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen The Open Source Way : https://theopensourceway.org Operate First : https://operate-first.cloud