Add an option to use Skupper CLI to generate the YAML for GitOps

[hguerrero]

Currently, CLI commands like skupper init generate k8s resources and applies them to the connected cluster. There should be a way to add some flag like -o yaml to generate that manifest so they can be used in a GitOps process.

[vmahe35]

Hello I am also interested by this question related to a declarative way to deploy Skupper For one of my project, I would like to use Crossplane (and its Kubernetes operator) to deploy Skupper and other platform resources (K8S clusters, virtual networks, ...) via a management cluster. But Crossplane uses a declarative approach and therefore it is not really convenient to use a CLI to manage the lifecycle of Skupper sites, links and exposed services. I can create K8S Jobs or initContainers but it becomes quite complex to orchestrate the different steps.

I saw in the official doc that there is a Skupper operator but it seems that it can only manage the lifecycle of Skupper sites, not the lifecycle of links or exposed services.

Would there be a solution to manage all this declaratively via some kind of multi-cluster operator ?

[grs]

There is no such solution as yet, but it is definitely a goal in the relatively near term.

[nluaces]

This issue has been completed in skupper v2