Feature Overview

The declarative nature of Kubernetes and OpenShift make it hard to understand if a cluster is performing operations. In imperative systems somebody has kicked off an action and can follow it. In declarative system, the system is deciding when to take action.

With an in-flight operations list we are introducing a feature to expose operations that are currently going on in the cluster ("ongoing or in-progress reconcilations").

Reconcilations can be viewed if an admin goes to each API endpoint individually and checks resources. But two things make this difficult:

1. All API endpoints/CRs need to be checked individually
2. Each API has it's own semantics about how in-progress/ongoing reconcillations are being signaled

This feature will surface ongoing reconcilations in a central endpoint.

Goals

• Who benefits from this feature, and how? Cluster admins will have a central point (api, cli, ui) to look at to understand what is going on in the cluster.
• What is the difference between today’s current state and a world with this feature? Today an admin has to know what to look for, has to know the api, and has to understand the api. In future the admin can look at one point and from the list knows if there is something going on or not.

Requirements

(Optional) Use Cases

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Background, and strategic fit

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Customer Considerations

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