Bugzilla Ticket:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1963041

 
Description of problem:

The GitOps Operator can't be installed in ROSA cluster due the namespace used is `openshift-gitops` and is hardcoded here[1]:

~~~
var (
port int32 = 8080
portTLS int32 = 8443
backendImage string = "quay.io/redhat-developer/gitops-backend:v0.0.1"
backendImageEnvName = "BACKEND_IMAGE"
serviceName = "cluster"
insecureEnvVar = "INSECURE"
insecureEnvVarValue = "true"
serviceNamespace = "openshift-gitops"
depracatedServiceNamespace = "openshift-pipelines-app-delivery"
clusterVersionName = "version"
)
~~~

Per ROSA policies [2] the namespaces `openshift-*` are considered as a core namespaces only for SRE use, so the customer can't use them.

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[1]
https://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/blob/a15f0c70541c9dcc7b9541c35e7e29bb9a880e3b/pkg/controller/gitopsservice/gitopsservice_controller.go#L49
[2]
https://docs.openshift.com/rosa/rosa_policy/rosa-policy-process-security.html#rosa-policy-rh-access_rosa-policy-process-security
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible: Install the Operator and see that the namespace is not configurable

Actual results: The Operator is installed but the customer don't have privileges to work with it

Description:

Add a subscription env to disable creation of the default operator

Enabling additional support for the GitOps OpenShift console UI will be handled by a subsequent story/epic.

Acceptance Criteria:

• The operator Subscription should support an environment variable which, when set, prevents the creation of the default ArgoCD instance in gitops-operator namespace
• Environment variable should be documented for public users
• ArgoCD monitoring (via ServiceMonitors) should continue to work for ArgoCD instances that the user creates.
• When running in this mode, the UI will not work for this Argo CD instance (similar to user-scoped ArgoCD instances installed in other namespaces); verify that this doesn't significantly affect the openshift-console.

Reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15D0_zHDC7DOjFhcgv9ARIyRpOQ8BT2tlU2I-KdVeGCA/edit#heading=h.sjry3ffn2zpl