Problem Statement:

There are feature parities between ODH and RHOAI. For example, a component is incubating in ODH for multiple releases before going into RHOAI. Such cases prevents operator from having 1-1 sync between commits in upstream and downstream. Implement Feature Flags for the operator to exclude incubating features. In the meantime, we just exclude these commits from cherry-pick.

Advantages of Introducing Feature Flags

1. Improved sync between ODH and RHOAI
2. For ODH customers/users easier adoption to OpenShift AI
3. For OpenShift AI customers, way to test out upcoming features.

Considerations

1. ODH component integrations consists of quay images. Would it be okay to include such features behind a feature flag in OpenShiftAI
2. Effectively handling CRD updates.

Implementation

1. We should be able to add optional fields in CRDs to enable feature flags.