Update on Operate First community cloud
by Karsten Wade
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#meetings>
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>.
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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
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