BU Priority Overview Hosted Control Planes is a strategic enabler for Azure Red Hat OpenShift, providing a hosted control plane that is highly scalable and cost-efficient. It's set to become a cornerstone of the ARO offering.

Goals to align on

• Launch General Availability (GA) of ARO with HyperShift Hosted Control Planes in the first half of the calendar year 2024 (2H CY24).
• Ensure ARO is primed to onboard new customers leveraging HyperShift immediately upon GA.

State of the Business As part of the broader OpenShift Cloud Services portfolio, ARO is poised to contribute significantly to the OpenShift business within the Azure ecosystem. With a set target, ARO with HCP is expected to play a pivotal role in reaching financial goals through infrastructure optimization and cost reduction.

Execution Plans

• Review and align attached child JIRAs with the HyperShift integration for ARO to ensure they contribute directly to the GA readiness in 2H CY24.
• Optimize the HyperShift operator for deployment on Azure to minimize infrastructure costs and SRE toil, leveraging Azure's unique capabilities and integrating with Azure-specific services and security features. 

This outcome is covering for the HyperShift Operator changes and tracking all OCP required changes needed to make ARO w/ HCP happen