User Story

As a user I want to be able to add taints to my machines, and have them propagate to the nodes.

Background

Currently,  MAPI supports propagating labels from machines to nodes, but CAPI does not. When we move to CAPI we will lose this feature.

_See https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-37236_

Relevant upstream issues:

• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/issues/11175
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Steps

• Understand why the discrepancy exists
• Determine how much work it would be for the NodeLink controller to copy the taints
• Chat with upstream to see if the idea of unrestricted taint propagation through some mechansim is palletable.
• Come back to the group and decide a course of action.

Stakeholders

• Our users, who currently have this feature.

Definition of Done

• A decision is made on how we can still support this.