provider-generic-workflows

provider-generic-workflows is a generic provider which uses argo workflows for managing the external resource. This will reduce the effort required for building a new managed resource. It will also enable ease of integration with existing automation

Some of the use-cases:

1. Create a new managed resource that uses terraform for external resource management instead of AWS APIs
2. Create a virtual external resource. For example: An organization may have a multi-tenant UAA and creating a new UAA tenant is basically creating a new tenant
3. Creating workflows with inbuilt approval, For example: Provisioning a new AWS account with sponsor approval and budget definitions.
4. or any other myriad of argo workflow use cases

Features

It will have the following features:

1. Controller Config - It will contain the credentials / role for artifact repository and the details of the S3 bucket for storing artifacts generated by the workflow.
2. Provider Config - It will contain the service account details for the workflow object. Also, allows options credentials and AssumeRole which may be used for managing external resource
3. Generic argo workflow client - A generic argo workflow client that supports CRUD-L for argo workflows
4. Automatic Garbage Collection - An automatic workflow pod cleanup which cleans up the pods created by the workflow after a configurable period of time.
5. Example: An example of a managed resource called SecurityGroup which used argo workflow and terraform for maintaining its lifecycle

Developing

Run against a Kubernetes cluster:

make run

Build, push, and install:

make all

Build image:

make image

Push image:

make push

Build binary:

make build