By default, an OpenShift cluster on AWS will only install the AWS CAPI infrastructure provider.

We have use cases (eg via MCE) where there is a want to install additional providers, and, have those act upon multiple namespaces.

We need to understand:

• What impacts will there be if we enable multiple providers?
• What will the configuration API look like to enable this?
• Can we enable controllers to act across multiple namespaces based on some configuration?
• Do we need to have configuration to enable subsets of provider functions, eg ROSA HCP provider inside CAPA
• How do we make sure the external platforms are not excluded in this API? (future expansion)

Expected outcome is an enhancement style document

CC rh-ee-smodeel who raised this during the CAPI F2F July '24