Summary:

• While Watcher is in Technology Preview support status, the watcher-operator is managed out of the OpenStack Operator. It's installed as standalone and the Watcher CR is managed out of the OpenStack Operator CRDs (openstackcontrolplane, openstackversion, etc...)
• In order to have Watcher as a fully supported service in RHOSO it needs to be integrated in the OpenStack Operator as any other service operator.
• While the expected timeline for this is 18.0 FR4 (TBC), we want to identify what changes will be needed upfront, so that we can estimate effort and timing properly

Goal:

• Identify the required changes and steps to integrate watcher-operator into openstack-operator to be properly supported.

Deliverables/Outcomes:

• Document the required tasks and high level plan for integration. Could be just to document in this ticket, create a doc or Jira tickets depending on the findings.

Relevant info:

• https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHOSSTRAT-77
• Investigate how CRDs and webhooks management is done after latest changes in openstack-operator. ( https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OSPRH-11244 https://github.com/openstack-k8s-operators/openstack-operator/pull/1185)