[Technical Initiative Funding Request]: 2025 RSTUF Cloud/k8s deployment costs for tests, demo and validations

[kairoaraujo]

Technical Initiative

RSTUF Project Cloud/k8s/Storage development costs for tests, demo, validations

Lifecycle Phase

sandbox

Funding amount

$1500

Problem Statement

RSTUF deployment on Cloud/K8s for demos and tests

Who does this affect?

RSTUF developers and maintainers

Have there been previous attempts to resolve the problem?

No

Why should it be tackled now and by this TI?

Yes, this a continuation for 2025 funding as #315

Give an idea of what is required to make the funding initiative happen

This funding issue is a request to continue the funding approved in 2024.

• [Technical Initiative Funding Request]: RSTUF Cloud/k8s deployment costs for tests, demo and validations #315

In 2024, we requested $1000 US dollars for the year.
The RSTUF project used $ 828,40 US dollars

This year, we are requesting $1500 US dollars as we intend to run several performance tests for high-traffic repositories and might request an increase in infrastructure size.

What is going to be needed to deliver this funding initiative?

An account or credits to use deploy the RSTUF in a cloud service on Kubernetes

Are there tools or tech that still need to be produced to facilitate the funding initiative?

No response

Give a summary of the requirements that contextualize the costs of the funding initiative

The entire cost here is to deploy one or two Kubernetes clusters for RSTUF.

Who is responsible for doing the work of this funding initiative?

Kairo de Araujo (@kairoaraujo)

Who is accountable for doing the work of this funding initiative?

Kairo de Araujo (@kairoaraujo)

If the responsible or accountable parties are no longer available, what is the backup contact or plan?

Martin Vrachev (@MVrachev), Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankatdatadog)

What license is this funding initiative being used under?

MIT

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the OpenSSF's Code of Conduct

List the major milestones by date and identify the overall timeline within which the technical initiative plans to accomplish their goals. Any payments for services, sponsorships, etc., will require LF Legal and Financial review.

We expect RSTUF to be used by critical software repositories and secure the software supply chain by the end of Q4 2025.

If this is a request for funding to issue a contract, then OpenSSF will issue that contract. Please provide a Statement of Work (SOW) that we may review. Any contracting action will take 4-6 weeks to issue.

No response

[kairoaraujo]

This is a funding continuation for

• [Technical Initiative Funding Request]: RSTUF Cloud/k8s deployment costs for tests, demo and validations #315 (2024)

[kairoaraujo]

cc @riaankleinhans (following the close comment for #315)

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Till after next TAC meeting to discuss this.

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