Summary:
This epic focuses on implementing a GitOps-based deployment framework for NFV customer validation architecture in OpenStack. The goal is to establish a standardized, automated, and version-controlled installation layer for strategic customer architectures, ensuring consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Goals & Objectives:

• Develop an automated GitOps-driven installation process tailored for NFV workloads & architecture in OpenStack.
• Enable declarative infrastructure management, ensuring reproducibility and version control.
• Improve deployment consistency and reliability across strategic customer environments.
• Reduce manual configuration efforts by leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) best practices.
• Enhance scalability and flexibility in managing customer-specific architectures.

Scope:

• Define and implement GitOps workflows for NFV deployments in OpenStack.
• Develop customized Kustomize configurations for NFV customer environments.
• Integrate with CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning and updates.
• Establish best practices for configuration management and policy enforcement.
• Validate the solution through PoC deployments and customer use case testing.
• Develop an option for another level of testing to validate the architecture.

Deliverables:

• GitOps repository structure with modular templates for NFV architectures.
• Kustomize-based deployment manifests for OpenStack environments.
• CI/CD pipeline integrations for automated deployment and updates.
• Documentation and best practices for GitOps workflows in NFV deployments.

Success Criteria:

• Successful end-to-end deployment of NFV workloads using GitOps.
• Reduced manual intervention and increased deployment automation.
• Positive validation through testing in strategic customer environments.
• Alignment with OpenStack and NFV architecture best practices.
• Possibility to run E2E testing  and performance testing on top of the GitOps deployments

Docs & Reference:

• [refinement] RHOSO GitOps Problem Statement and Mission
• RHOSO GitOps Demo Simplified
• GitOps Demo (PoC) 
• Project home page
• Notes - GitOps Team Weekly Sync
• GitOps on github
• rhos-gitops on internal gitlab
• #rhos-gitops on Slack