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@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), 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
Operate First GitHub

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 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 held on Thursdays at 10 am Pacific/17:00 UTC.

Additional information can be found here.

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