Goal:

• As a partner engineer, I would like if I can validate a cluster installed with platform type External with hypershift operator, installing hosted clusters with platform type None.
• Check if there are additional e2e tests/suites to validate HCP components
• Check if we can run regular conformance tests on hosted clusters, and what to expect using OPCT workflow
• Check if it is possible to install hosted clusters with platform type External

Acceptance criteria:

Answer the questions:

• Can we install hypershift on management clusters installed with platform type External?
• Can we create hosted clusters with platform type External?
• Is there specific hypershift conformance tests to run on management clusters?
• Is the existing conformance suite workflow, used by Oracle (opct, openshift/conformance suite), works/pass in hosted clusters?

Define the next step:

• Create any relevant card to track* the validation of an OpenShift cluster with HyperShift operator installed, and a hosted cluste
  • *track depend of the spike, it could be documentation change, tooling patches, etc

Context / Engineering documents:

•  [1] Slack thread of Oracle intents to validate HCP using OCI deployment
  • https://redhat-external.slack.com/archives/C05N3PY1XPH/p1728331642255249?thread_ts=1728324655.200359&cid=C05N3PY1XPH 
• [2] HyperShift has a guide to install hosted clusters with platform type None: https://hypershift-docs.netlify.app/how-to/none/create-none-cluster/#procedure