Epic Goal

• Upstream adoption of OLM packaging tools with popular CI infrastructure like GitHub Actions
• Extend support for building operator artifacts with declarative index configs
• Initiate Community Operators adoption of file based catalogs

Why is this important?

• there is currently only rough documentation on OLMs packaging tools
• there is fragmentation in the guidance around how Operator developers are supposed to build release artifacts (opm vs. operator-sdk)
• there is little to no guidance on how to publish release artifacts as part of a catalog

Acceptance Criteria

• GitHub actions that can build Operator bundles from bundle metadata
• GitHub actions that can build Operator catalogs from declarative index
• Documnetation for both actions
• Instructions on how to build an example GitHub Action based pipeline to automatically create bundle artifacts and automatically publish them to a catalog based on the above

Optional achievements

• Tekton Tasks that can build operator bundles from bundle metadata published on Tekton Hub
• Tekton Tasks that can build operator catalogs from declarative index published on Tekton Hub

Done Checklist

• CI - CI is running, tests are automated and merged.
• DEV - Upstream code and tests merged: <link to meaningful PR or GitHub Issue>
• DEV - Upstream documentation merged: <link to meaningful PR or GitHub Issue>