Stable v1beta1 APIs for managed databases and caches

[prasek]

Beta meta model w/ DB & Redis, so users can deploy to dev/test/prod, align on shape of APIs & best practices, high-def CRDs & controllers, to provide a basis for for code generation in a future milestone.

Part of the 0.4 release

What seems to be the problem?

APIs are currently v1alpha and would like more stable v1beta APIs, so I can take a dependency on Crossplane in my dev/test/prod environments for key managed resources like databases and caches.

What could Crossplane do to help?

Align on shape of APIs & best practices across stacks, define a consistent Crossplane meta model as extensions to Kubernetes, model high-def CRDs and controllers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis.

What does it look like when we're done?

GCP, AWS and Azure database and Redis resources should be upgraded to v1beta1, which requires them to be refactored to use generic managed reconciler and adopt the patterns in managed resources api patterns one-pager.

How could this be demonstrated?

Possibly a demo showing how Crossplane covers most (if not all) possible configurations that you can have for these resources and consistency between their CR forms.

Related Issues

• [Converge on a consistent Custom Resource design for managed resources #831] Align on shape of APIs & best practices
  • Beta meta model w/ DB & Redis, so users can deploy to dev/test/prod
  • namespace-name scheme for managed resources crossplane-runtime#43 Naming scheme for all resources.
  • [External resource names should be configurable #624] Managed resource name as external name for all resources.

• GCP CloudSQL and CloudMemoryInstance v1beta1 Quality  crossplane-contrib/provider-gcp#43 GCP CloudSQL and CloudMemoryInstance resources v1beta1
• AWS RDS and ReplicationGroup v1beta1 Quality crossplane-contrib/provider-aws#30 AWS RDS and ReplicationGroup resources v1beta1
• Azure SQL Server v1beta1 Quality crossplane-contrib/provider-azure#28 Azure SQL and Redis resources v1beta1

Nice to have

[#933] v1beta1 quality conformance doc