cncf
[Initiative]: Infrastructure Lifecycle
Name
Infrastructure Lifecycle
Short description
The continuous process of designing, deploying, operating, updating, and decommissioning infrastructure resources.
Responsible group
TAG Infrastructure
Does the initiative belong to a subproject?
No
Subproject name
No response
Primary contact
Dylan Page
Additional contacts
Bruno Schaatsbergen ( @bschaatsbergen) Jochen Zehnder ( @elft3r)
Initiative description
Develop a framework via a whitepaper for managing the lifecycle of infrastructure in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments based on cloud-native principles. This framework will guide end-users in managing infrastructure to ensure it is secure, resilient, manageable, sustainable, and observable.
Working has already begun on writing the whitepaper, as we are a Working Group under the TAG App Delivery We have progressed recently from the outline stage to the content stage as per TOC tech paper guideline, and would like to continue this work.
https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/wgs/infra-lifecycle/charter/
Deliverable(s) or exit criteria
Develop a framework for managing the lifecycle of infrastructure in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments through a whitepaper.
Future deliverables could include a subproject for Infrastructure Lifecycle or additional initiatives that dig deeper into sub-categories such as Infrastructure-as-Code.
This is a list of all the work / contributions so far:
- https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/tree/main/infra-lifecycle-wg/contributions
- https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/pull/817
- https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/pull/820
Link to the Meeting Notes of the Working Group: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KvNAY8hYZ_PXzyLC3BSnzWBl8w8glpLYuqDIa-Z6Stk/edit?usp=sharing
Just swinging by :D Interesting topic, IMO. Some thoughts about this proposal.
Whitepapers seem to be the natural delivery we gravitate towards, but I am not sure if that's always good. Whitepapers have their spot for sure, but areas like this one (while you can explore them for a long time) could also be described in a shorter form factor, I suspect—something like a tech brief or a certain type of blog post.
When looking over one of the PRs listed (https://github.com/cncf/tag-app-delivery/pull/820/), I see a lot of content that (while not being misplaced, since it makes sense in the context) explains a different topic... describing unit tests, etc. Perhaps a more focused and condensed whitepaper/tech brief would be a better fit to:
- Get to the core of the infra lifecycle.
- Avoid describing things just to write.
- Get a paper out and not work on this for a year or longer.
- Get folks to read it, since a more condensed form usually has more value.
This initative already seems to be quite underway so.. it might be reasonable to also take comment as input/feedback/retro for future iniatives idk 🙌
