As a Kessel service developer, I want a place to test code changes that rely on production-like infrastructure, that cannot be tested locally or in ephemeral. Code changes that rely on services like AWS MSK, or RDS, where connection methods are different than ephemeral, or Clowder dependency injection is structured differently, are at risk for errors that could impact those relying on Kessel in Stage for their own development work. Ideally, we should have an integration environment where we can deploy Kessel services, leveraging the same or identical infra as stage so that when we deploy to stage and prod and know with absolute certainty our service is working at a basic level.

The goal of this spike is to determine a way to create a cost effective (no cost preferred) integration environment for Kessel services to deploy to for testing changes that require stage/prod like infra.

Done Criteria

• Design doc created outlying the process for creating and leveraging a integration environment for kessel services