Accessing Output from Porter Installation

[hemantkathuria]

I am using version 0.8.2. I was unable to install 1.0 because of this issue. https://github.com/getporter/operator/issues/285

I am able to fire the installation by creating an instance of Installation CRD. I am unable to find a way to access output from porter mix-ins.

I can see that there is one CRD schema called installationoutputs available here. https://github.com/getporter/operator/blob/main/config/crd/bases/getporter.org_installationoutputs.yaml but I don't see this created in my Azure AKS cluster. Do I need to perform any extra steps for the same?

Currently, we are utilizing in-cluster MongoDB, can we replace it with Azure Cosmos DB + Mongo API? Are there any performance issues?

@troy0820 @schristoff @sgettys

[troy0820]

Several points to address. The porter operator can provide you outputs with the installationoutputs CR however, there needs to be a GRPC server that we intend to bundle with the porter operator installation. The porter operator currently doesn't show these outputs when the outputs are updated, a gap we understand. The installationoutputs are served by the grpc endpoint and act as a state store for the output of the installation that is being done by the operator. So the performance of any different backend store from mongo/azure cosmos db should be negligible (assumption mine).

There is an effort to reduce the state store capabilities with a different approach around this and going forward with what can be more useful for the operator's existence.

Porter just released v1.0.17 and the operator will be updating it's tag and what may come is that bundled grpc server container with the porter operator to provide some installation output functionality.