helm-external-secrets/design/011-deprecate-olm.md

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title: Deprecaation of OLM Builds
authors: @gusfcarvalho
creation-date: 2024-12-04
status: approved
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This Proposal was approved on community meeting of 4th december 2024 (meeting notes: https://hackmd.io/GSGEpTVdRZCP6LDxV3FHJA?both)

Deprecaation of OLM Builds

Introduction

As part of our Release process, we currently build & maintain several docker images, helm releases, bundle manifests for users, and OLM builds via a community effort based on olm helm operator.

However, OLM helm operator itself would require a better support and constant maintenance, and its process when building OLM builds is already not automated anymore.

Summary

Stop building OLM Releases

Motivation

Make maintenance lives easier for a project that is struggling to get maintainers together :)

Goals

Remove OLM builds as part of our build assets

Proposal

Archive repository & communicate on next release within the release notes.

API

None

Behavior

None

Drawbacks

Users might complain - but then they can fork the archived repository to build their own OLM builds locally.

Alternatives

Find community members to handle the maintenance aspect of it. Have a new dedicated OLM repository in/out of the org. Make this be maintained by other parties than external-secrets maintainers.

Do not use the current olm helm operator anymore as anyways this is not really supported.