7:12 a.m.
Hi all,
Just wanted to add my perspective that I view this as an evolution. The
bare metal community cloud
at the MOC (Mass Open Cloud) has served us well with workloads being
brought to a cloud that was
built from the ground up in an open way. The work done to stand up and
maintain the bare metal cloud was
the basis for the NERC's (New England Research Cloud) new OpenShift
environment.
Running workloads on the NERC, or other places, will continue. And as
community builds
around the lower level open source cloud operations, with participants
needing a bare metal
environment that they are willing to help run, it's quite probable that our
partners at the MOC Alliance
(which NERC is part of) can again carve off some resources for such a
purpose.
Onward we go.
cheers,
Bill
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 3:47 PM Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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>;.
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