Proposal: Application Lifecycle Working Group in Keptn

[oleg-nenashev]

I would like to suggest a new App Lifecycle Working Group in Keptn, focused on standardization and interoperability with other tools. We already do a lot of work in this area, and a dedicated working group could help us to focus the efforts better.

The scope would be:

• Standardization around application life cycle and deployment events within the Keptn events spec
• Creation of a new standard for deployment events and CRDs, based on what we have in Keptn Events spec and other projects. We had a few chats with maintainers of K8s projects, and it seems to be a good spot for us
• Keptn Lifecycle Controller PoC, now in sandbox. This is an experimental project. The goal of this prototype is to introduce a more “cloud-native” approach for pre- and post-deployment, as well as the concept of application health checks, and it could be a reference implementation for the standards suggested above.
• Collaboration with related projects, including CDEvents, K8s, Argo, OpenSLO, OpenTelemetry, etc. Ideally a lot of work could and should be upstreamed to become standards beyond just Keptn

If the proposal is accepted, the group would have the following properties:

• Channels: #wg-app-lifecycle on Keptn Slack, regular meetings if needed
• Repository: A new repository will be created in keptn/keptn. All governance docs will go there
• Governance: To be determined. Keptn Community Governance process applies during the bootstrap

[bradmccoydev]

This is a good idea!

[thisthat]

I am in favor of this 👍

[AloisReitbauer]

Go from my side.

[mukteshkrmishra]

+1

[oleg-nenashev]

The working group was created https://github.com/keptn/wg-app-lifecycle

[thschue]

+1 from my side