2024-12-17 Workload Orchestration Agent Interfaces Focus Group Meeting

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Meeting notices

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Reminder - Meeting is recorded

• Chair: Armand Craig (Rockwell) - @ajcraig
• Project Management: Sean Mcilroy (Linux Foundation) - @seanmcilroy29

Agenda

• Convene & Welcome New Participants
• Review Agenda
• Discuss the current working groups and progress made via the ad-hoc technical discussions.
  • Workload management interface - Gitops Alternatives link below:
    • https://github.com/margo/woa-interfaces-wg/tree/main/git-alternatives/proposals
  • Ingestion of Helm discussion
    • Margo Preview Release 1 Scope: Workload Management Interface specification#45 (comment)
• Discuss associated issues associated with this Focus Group:
  • Decision Tracker – Deployment specification retrieval
  • Decision Tracker - Deployment Specification retrieval (Rest/Open Gitops) specification#22
  • Avoiding External registry access by WOA
  • Avoiding external registry access by WOA specification#20
  • DesiredState specification needs clarity
  • DesiredState specifiction needs clarity on allowed/mandatory properties  specification#53
  • Describe the workload deployment status mechanism
  • Decision Tracker - Describe the Workload Deployment Status mechanism specification#10
  • Describe the device capabilities specification
  • Decision Tracker - Describe the device capabilities specification specification#9

Review Project Board

• Add work items to review or discuss from the project board/roadmap

Review PRs

• Add PRs that need review, approval or discussion

Review Issues

• Add issues that need review, assignment, triage, or other clarification

AOB

• Add any other items that were raised for discussion

Items for next meeting

• Add any items that should be covered in the next meeting

Adjournment

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Meeting minutes

Summary meeting notes

The meeting focused on finalizing the scope and decisions for the Margo preview release. Key points included the debate between REST API and open GitOps for providing the desired state-to-edge devices, with a consensus leaning towards REST. The team discussed the ingestion of Helm charts, considering the impact on air-gapped environments and the need for flexibility. Defining the initial release before engaging contractors was emphasized, ensuring clarity on Docker and Helm support. Other topics included avoiding external registry access, clarifying deployment status, and finalizing device capability specifications. The goal is to have these issues resolved before the 2025 kickoff.

Action Items

• Provide feedback on the alternatives to open GitOps in the associated GitHub issue.
• Continue the discussion on the process of ingesting the Helm chart.
• Finalize the Margo preview release 1 scope before engaging contractors.