ARO HCP Documentation

Welcome to the ARO HCP documentation. This guide provides an overview of the architecture and deployment of ARO HCP, primarily intended for developers and SREs working on the project.

Table of Contents

1. High Level Architecture

   • System overview, scopes and key components
   • Major services and how they interact

2. Environments

   • Overview
     • Overview of different deployment environments and Azure tenants
     • Key differences and capabilities of each environment
     • Access requirements and limitations
     • Feature/Capability Matrix
   • Red Hat development tenant deployment environments
     • Personal ARO HCP environment
     • Integrated DEV environment
     • CS PR environment
     • Personal perfscale environment
   • MSFT deployment environments
     • MSIT INT

3. Configuration Management

   • Overview and override structures
   • Configuration schema
   • Guidelines and limitations

4. Deployment Concept

   • Pipelines concept
   • Service deployment concept
   • Deployment artifacts
     • Azure infrastructure Bicep templates
     • Helm Charts
     • Container images

5. Deploying ARO HCP

   • Pipelines
     • documents existing pipelines
   • EV2 Deployment
     • Deployment process from pipeline.yaml to EV2 deployment
     • Building and executing an ADO pipeline
   • Secret Syncronization
     • documents tools/processes to sync secrets

6. Terminology