[Feature] [LFX] [GSoC] Extend more Cloud providers and Cloud resources

[zzxwill]

Project description

To enable KubeVela end-users to better manage cloud resources, more cloud providers and cloud resources are needed to support in KubeVela.

Cloud providers

These are some cloud providers which have been supported as Terraform Addons.

• terraform-alibaba
• terraform-aws
• terraform-azure
• terraform-tencent
• terraform-gcp add gcp provider and generate addon catalog#245 by @Nicola115
• terraform-baidu Add baidu addons catalog#251 @double12gzh

But there are also some which have been supported by Terraform Controller, but not by KubeVela. They are expected to be extended as Terraform Cloud providers in KubeVela.

• Elastic Cloud
• VMware vSphere
• UCloud

Cloud resources

KubeVela has supported 92 cloud resources across cloud providers. But we need more cloud resources to be extended as KubeVela Terraform ComponentDefinition.

Cloud Resource	Priority	AWS	Alibaba Cloud	Tencent Cloud
Database	High	RDS Mysql	RDS for MySQL (Done)	TencentDB for MySQL
	High	Amazon MemoryDB for Redis	RDS Redis （Done by @chivalryq ）	TencentDB for Redis
Message Queue	High	Amazon MQ	AlibabaMQ for Apache RocketMQ	Cloud Message Queue
Object Storage	High	S3	OSS (Done)	Cloud Object Storage
Logging System	Medium		SLS
Monitoring System	Medium	CloudWatch	ARMS	Cloud Monitor
Virtual Machine		EC2	ECS	Cloud Virtual Machine
Kubernetes		EKS	ACK (Done)	TKE
Load balancing		ELB	SLB	Cloud Load Balancer
			NAS/Cloud Disk

Expected outcomes

• 15+ cloud providers are supported by KubeVela as Terraform addons.
• 300+ cloud resources are supported.
• Tools and docs to support extending Terraform provider addons and cloud resources in an easy and productive way

Mentors

• @zzxwill

Expected size of the project

350 hours

Difficult level

Hard

Reference

• How to extend a cloud resource: https://kubevela.io/docs/platform-engineers/components/component-terraform

Related features and issues

• Extend GCP cloud resources add gcp resources catalog#268
• [Feature] Extend UCloud as a Terraform addon #3336
• [Feature] Extend VMware vSphere as a Terraform addon #3337
• Terraform outputs from some ComponentDefinitions are not generated #3224
• [Feature] Generate documentation for ComponentDefinition By local yaml files #3251
• [Feature] Sort variables and outputs for a cloud resource specification #3536

[paterson-deshommes]

I would be nice to also follow the following resources for Azure:

• Database => Microsoft Azure SQL Server & Database, Table Storage
• Message Queue => Azure Service Bus, Queue Storage
• Object Storage => Blob Storage
• Logging System => Application Insights
• Virtual Machines => Azure VM
• Kubernetes => AKS
• Load Balancing => Azure Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager

By the way I think there is an error in the table, the value for Kubernetes/AWS should be EKS not AKS.

[barnettZQG]

@paterson-deshommes It would be greater if you could contribute.

[zzxwill]

@paterson-deshommes Thanks for listing your requirements and the k8s product name for AWS. Could you contact me via Slack by @zzxwill or by email zzxwill@gmail.com? I would be much appreciated if we could have a deep discussion on your requirements and the business scenarios over KubeVela and those cloud resources. Thanks.

[paterson-deshommes]

@barnettZQG honestly I'd like to because I think KubeVela/OAM has a lot of potentials but I don't have the time to contribute code-wise, at least for the next few months. @zzxwill sure I'll contact you.

[zzxwill]

@chivalryq Great work on implementing Alibaba Cloud Redis #2507 .

[zzxwill]

@iamrajiv Great. Could you please send me an email at zzxwill@gmail.com with your self-introduction? Thanks.

[Vrukshali-26]

Hi @zzxwill , I want to contribute to this project for GSoC 2022, I have sent you the mail regarding this.

[zzxwill]

@zzxwill Great! I sent the mail.

@iamrajiv Can you review this PR kubevela/catalog#245 and try whether it works in GCP? I noticed you have experience in GCP.

[rutvik24]

Hi @zzxwill, I want to contribute in this project gsoc 2022, can you guide me how can i start this.

[zzxwill]

Hi @zzxwill, I want to contribute in this project gsoc 2022, can you guide me how can i start this.

Thanks for your interest. You can start with the issues:)