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  2. NE-1139

Design discussion for switching into and out of service mesh and maintaining a single control plane

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      This Spike covers two use cases:

      • As an admin user of Service Mesh, I want to know how to turn on Gateway API and still maintain a single control plane.
      • As an admin user of Gateway API, I want to know how to turn on Service Mesh and still maintain a single control plane.

      Coordination between NE and OSSM teams needed.  Discussion areas include:

      • Namespaces probably determine managed (by c-i-o) vs unmanaged Gateways (whether in/outside openshift-ingress namespace)
      • Decision - can we just always have service mesh enabled, but not watching every namespace? (check with Marc)
      • Should we have cluster ingress operator install/configure the service mesh objects/control plane for mesh use cases?
      • Can we remove the adhoc installation of service mesh and make it easier to install via c-i-o?
      • Can we create a shared Istio operator?
      • Others?

      We need to decide what things need to be configurable by the cluster admin, and how the cluster admin would configure these things.  To the latter point,

      Consider adding a new OpenShift-specific config CRD to specify the following:

      • Whether Gateway API/ingress is enabled.
      • Whether Istio API/mesh is enabled.
      • Istiod profile.
      • Automatic deployments (if this should be configurable). 

      The outcome of this story is some brief documentation including pros and cons of various methods to of configuring a new Gateway API installation while using Service Mesh, as well for as a new Service Mesh installation while using Gateway API; and a summary with a proposed recommended solution.

      NE-1290 discusses various methods and features that could be configured.

       

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              cholman@redhat.com Candace Holman
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