Feature Overview:

For RHEL AI we focused on complete ownership of the image content and built specialized wheel and image pipelines for building the product without a midstream. This approach will not work well for RHOAI, which already has a strong midstream presence. We need to make some adjustments in our images, make some new images, and provide our wheel packages in the midstream build environment to allow RHOAI adoption of the builds we are doing.

Product(s) associated:

RHOAI

Goals:
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• RHOAI developers will continue to own their image content using approaches familiar to them from working with upstream packages and images.
• AIPCC developers will be assured that new dependencies added in the midstream will trigger notifications for downstream builds very early in the process.

Requirements:
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1. We want a single Containerfile (per variant?) for each component image to be able to build the ODH midstream build with upstream wheels and the RHOAI downstream builds with AIPCC wheels.

This implies the process for installing wheels is the same, and is compatible with simple pip install commands like would be used upstream.

This implies that base images used for the midstream and downstream builds are compatible from the perspective of installing dependencies and wheels.

This implies that any base images produced by AIPCC for the downstream build have all of the needed RPM dependencies in them, or the component images install those dependencies in both builds.

There will be some build parameters for the image, to support the differences between upstream and downstream, but ideally we won’t need separate logic in the Containerfile.

2. We want base images that can be released freely in the midstream builds.

These images need to be compatible in the sense that someone can use them to build similar images, but it is not necessary that they are ABI compatible with AIPCC wheels.

3. We want a way to host the full set of all wheels that can be used to build RHOAI images so it is accessible to midstream builds.

These packages do not need to go into the ODH release.

4. We want to manage updates to base images and the package index for z-stream releases.

Done - Acceptance Criteria:
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1. ODH builds use a few common base images consistently.
2. ODH builds use upstream wheels.
3. RHOAI builds in the midstream use AIPCC base images.
4. RHOAI builds in the midstream use AIPCC wheels.
5. Adding dependencies in the midstream that are not available downstream (RPM, wheel, etc.) trigger build failures of RHOAI midstream builds and Jira tickets are filed (manually or automatically) requesting the new package.

Use Cases - i.e. User Experience & Workflow:
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Out of Scope:
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Documentation Considerations :
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Other Documentation:

* RHOAI Adoption of AIPCC Roadmap