HYPERFLEET-1593 - docs: ADR-0021 External platform for the guest in OCI hosted clusters - #210
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…CI hosted clusters Record the decision that OCI hosted clusters present the OpenShift External platform to the guest, while the HostedCluster uses the first-class OCI type (CAPOCI). Add ADR-0021, index it, and add glossary terms (External Platform, Cloud Controller Manager, CSI, OCI/Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).
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In `@hyperfleet/adrs/0021-oci-external-platform.md`:
- Line 30: Update the ADR statement about operators handling
PlatformType.External to remove the claim that all five render nothing. Clarify
that the image registry operator reconciles to managementState: Removed and the
ingress operator uses HostNetwork and FakeProvider, while these behaviors
provide no OCI-specific integration; preserve the documented effects for the
remaining operators.
- Line 26: Resolve the OCI CSI ownership ambiguity in the ADR: either define the
contract only as requiring an OCI CSI driver and default StorageClass to be
present, or select a single lifecycle owner and remove conflicting alternatives
from HYPERFLEET-1555 and the Open Questions section. Keep the installation and
upgrade responsibility unambiguous across the referenced control plane operator
and hosted-cluster-config-operator flows.
- Line 22: Update the OCI external-platform ADR to use the correct
Infrastructure field paths: Infrastructure.status.platformStatus.type,
Infrastructure.spec.platformSpec.external.platformName, and
Infrastructure.status.platformStatus.external.cloudControllerManager.state.
Remove any assumption that ExternalPlatformStatus contains region or
compartment; update HYPERFLEET-1553 to store those values in the cloud-provider
ConfigMap or a HyperFleet-owned resource.
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| ## Decision | ||
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| The guest cluster presents the **External platform** (`platformStatus.type: External`, `platformName: OCI`, `cloudControllerManager.state: External`). HyperFleet does **not** add a first-class `OCI` platform type to `openshift/api`. |
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Correct the External platform field paths.
Use Infrastructure.status.platformStatus.type, Infrastructure.spec.platformSpec.external.platformName, and Infrastructure.status.platformStatus.external.cloudControllerManager.state.
ExternalPlatformStatus has no region or compartment fields. Update HYPERFLEET-1553 to place them in the cloud-provider ConfigMap, or define a HyperFleet-owned resource.
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In `@hyperfleet/adrs/0021-oci-external-platform.md` at line 22, Update the OCI
external-platform ADR to use the correct Infrastructure field paths:
Infrastructure.status.platformStatus.type,
Infrastructure.spec.platformSpec.external.platformName, and
Infrastructure.status.platformStatus.external.cloudControllerManager.state.
Remove any assumption that ExternalPlatformStatus contains region or
compartment; update HYPERFLEET-1553 to store those values in the cloud-provider
ConfigMap or a HyperFleet-owned resource.
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| This is orthogonal to the HostedCluster using the first-class `OCI` type in `hypershift/api`: CAPOCI provisions the infrastructure and machines, while the guest OpenShift cluster it produces reports `External`. The GCP platform is the reference for the *set* of in-guest components that must exist ([HYPERFLEET-1539](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1539)); HyperFleet builds that set as operands rather than as `openshift/api` platform cases. | ||
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| Because every in-guest cluster operator no-ops on `External` (see the matrix below), HyperFleet owns the OCI-specific operands a named guest platform would otherwise provide: the OCI cloud controller manager, the OCI CSI driver plus a default `StorageClass`, the cloud-provider `ConfigMap` and Infrastructure platform status, image-registry storage, and DNS. These are rendered through the control plane operator (`support/globalconfig/infrastructure.go`, `installconfig.go`) and the hosted-cluster-config-operator (`hostedclusterconfigoperator/controllers/resources/`) — the shape of the [HYPERFLEET-1539](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1539) delivery stories. |
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Resolve CSI ownership before treating it as decided.
This line says HyperFleet owns the OCI CSI driver and its lifecycle. HYPERFLEET-1555 and the Open Questions section still allow a partner install, HCCO management, or a HyperFleet operand. Define the decision as “a CSI driver and default StorageClass must be present,” or select one owner and remove the conflicting alternatives. Otherwise, installation and upgrade responsibility can be duplicated or omitted.
As per path instructions, prioritize this cross-layer architecture contract over prose cleanup.
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In `@hyperfleet/adrs/0021-oci-external-platform.md` at line 26, Resolve the OCI
CSI ownership ambiguity in the ADR: either define the contract only as requiring
an OCI CSI driver and default StorageClass to be present, or select a single
lifecycle owner and remove conflicting alternatives from HYPERFLEET-1555 and the
Open Questions section. Keep the installation and upgrade responsibility
unambiguous across the referenced control plane operator and
hosted-cluster-config-operator flows.
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| For each in-guest cluster operator, `External` requires HyperFleet to supply what the operator would render for a named guest platform. All five switch on `PlatformType`; on `External` they render nothing (verified against each operator's source on `main`). The epic states the live consequence directly: on External with no cloud integration, a joining worker stays tainted as uninitialised, the guest has no storage class, the registry has nowhere to store, and nothing resolves the API server or apps wildcard ([HYPERFLEET-1539](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1539)). |
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Replace the “all five no-op” claim.
Line 30 contradicts the matrix. The image registry operator still reconciles the registry to managementState: Removed, and the ingress operator still uses HostNetwork and FakeProvider. State that these operators provide no OCI-specific integration instead of saying that they render nothing.
As per path instructions, this is a behavior-contract correction, not a style finding.
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In `@hyperfleet/adrs/0021-oci-external-platform.md` at line 30, Update the ADR
statement about operators handling PlatformType.External to remove the claim
that all five render nothing. Clarify that the image registry operator
reconciles to managementState: Removed and the ingress operator uses HostNetwork
and FakeProvider, while these behaviors provide no OCI-specific integration;
preserve the documented effects for the remaining operators.
Source: Path instructions
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The decision is right, and it matches what the prototype and the OKE run proved. The two-layer separation (HostedCluster platform versus guest platform) is exactly the distinction that needed making, and the operator matrix answers the spike's acceptance criterion properly, from the operator sources. I want this merged. Two things first, one structural, one factual.
Structure: this doesn't read like an ADR yet. It references HYPERFLEET keys 84 times across 16 tickets. The other twenty ADRs in this directory range from zero to six references, and the template is four sections: Context, Decision, Consequences, Alternatives. The extra sections are where the tickets live, and each one is a problem in its own right:
- Follow-on Work restates the story list from the epic. That list already lives in JIRA, where it gets re-scoped and re-ordered; two copies will drift, and one line 59 comment below shows they already have. Replace the section with one sentence: delivery is tracked in the Control Plane Operator Integration epic.
- Open Questions are implementation questions owned by their stories, not open parts of this decision. If any of them could change the decision, the spike isn't done; they can't, so they belong in the tickets.
- References should keep the code, PR, and docs links (those are stable and public) and drop the ticket list. The spike and the epic are the only two keys worth keeping in the whole document.
Ticket keys rot: they get closed, re-scoped, and renumbered, and readers of this repo without JIRA access get nothing from them. The evidence carries the same weight without the keys attached: "our prototype ran a full 4.20 hosted control plane on OKE on 2026-08-25 with the guest on External" needs no citation to be true.
Accuracy: six inline comments below. The most important is the "end to end" claim, since no worker has ever joined an OCI hosted cluster and the worker-facing consequences of External are exactly the part that's still unexercised.
Spike follow-through: the spike's third acceptance criterion is that the linked stories are updated to the decided shape. 1553, 1555, and the epic's acceptance criteria still carry the pre-decision "External or first-class" conditional wording, and 1553 and the epic both promise region and compartment in the guest Infrastructure status, which External can't do. Updating those closes the spike properly and resolves the line 59 contradiction at the source.
The three CodeRabbit comments are all valid, the CSI ownership one especially: the cleanest fix is to decide only that a CSI driver and default StorageClass must be present, and leave ownership to the storage story as written.
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| HyperFleet is building support for HyperShift hosted OpenShift clusters on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Two platform types live at two different layers, and it is essential not to conflate them: | ||
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| - **The HostedCluster platform type** (`HostedCluster.spec.platform.type` in `hypershift/api`) drives how the hosted control plane and worker infrastructure are provisioned. HyperFleet is delivering this as a **first-class `OCI` type**, behind the `OCIPlatform` feature gate ([HYPERFLEET-1579](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1579)), with `OCIPlatformSpec` ([HYPERFLEET-1580](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1580), [HYPERFLEET-1545](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1545)) driving the Cluster API Provider for OCI (CAPOCI) to create the VCN, load balancers, and machines ([HYPERFLEET-1546](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1546) through [HYPERFLEET-1551](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1551)). This is not in scope of this decision — it is the surrounding feature. |
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The 1546 through 1551 range is loose. 1548 is a version-pin spike, 1550 is RHCOS image resolution under the NodePool controllers epic, and 1551 is the create infra oci CLI, which creates the VCN itself rather than through CAPOCI. Suggest citing 1546, 1547, and 1549 for the CAPOCI work, or dropping the range entirely (see the structural comment in the review body, this bullet reads fine with no keys at all).
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| This spike ([HYPERFLEET-1593](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1593)) answers: should the guest present the **External** platform (`platformStatus.type: External`, `platformName: OCI`), or a **first-class `OCI` platform type in `openshift/api`** that every cluster operator learns to handle? The epic framing is explicit: "the platform model the guest cluster sees (External or a first-class OCI platform)" ([HYPERFLEET-1539](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1539)). | ||
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| Two pieces of evidence anchor the answer. First, `openshift/api` documents `ExternalPlatformType` as a deliberately generic provider whose `platformName` is informational only and not to be used for decision-making (`config/v1/types_infrastructure.go`); its only per-platform switch is `platformStatus.external.cloudControllerManager.state`. Standalone Red Hat OpenShift on OCI already ships on this path (installer [#7217](https://github.com/openshift/installer/pull/7217) introduced the generic External type; assisted-service [#5548](https://github.com/openshift/assisted-service/pull/5548) sets it for OCI): Oracle supplies `oci-cloud-controller-manager` and the OCI CSI driver and sets `cloudControllerManager.state: External`. Second, HyperFleet's own prototype (fork branch `platform-oci`, [HYPERFLEET-1581](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1581)) ran a full 4.20 hosted control plane on OKE on 2026-08-25 with **OCI mapped to the External platform** for the guest, confirming the path works end to end before any cloud integration is added. |
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"End to end" overstates the run. It proved the control plane runs on OKE and the guest Infrastructure config renders as External. It did not exercise the guest side: no worker has ever joined (CAPOCI was never deployed), the cluster stayed Available: False, the image registry operator crash-looped on a CPO/payload version mismatch, and the network and ingress operators never started. The matrix's claims about operator behaviour on External come from source reading, which the ADR says honestly further down. Suggest: "confirming the control plane and the guest platform configuration work before any cloud integration is added". The first joined worker is where External's costs actually bite, and that validation hasn't run yet.
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| | Cluster operator | On External (chosen path) | On a first-class guest OCI platform | HyperFleet owns under External | | ||
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| | cloud-controller-manager-operator | No CCM rendered (no `External` case → default returns no resources). `cloudControllerManager.state: External` sets `--cloud-provider=external` and taints new nodes as uninitialized until the external CCM initializes them. | An `OCI` case renders and manages an OCI CCM. | Deploy and manage the OCI CCM (`oci-cloud-controller-manager`) as an operand ([HYPERFLEET-1552](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1552)). | |
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Worth a small correction: "cloudControllerManager.state: External sets --cloud-provider=external" describes the standalone mechanism. In HyperShift the control plane operator renders --cloud-provider=external unconditionally for every platform (see the control-plane-operator KCM deployment), so in a hosted cluster the field's practical effect is the node initialization taint semantics, not the flag. Suggest splitting the two claims so the row doesn't imply the field does flag work here.
| | cluster-storage-operator | No CSI driver operator started (no `Platform: External` entry). | An OCI `CSIOperatorConfig` starts an OCI CSI driver operator. | Supply the OCI block-volume CSI driver and a default `StorageClass` ([HYPERFLEET-1555](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1555)). | | ||
| | cluster-image-registry-operator | No backend configured → registry bootstraps as `managementState: Removed`. | An `OCI` case wires an OCI Object Storage backend. | Choose day-1 registry storage (Object Storage or emptyDir) and configure it. | | ||
| | cluster-ingress-operator | `HostNetwork` publishing (default) and a no-op (`FakeProvider`) DNS provider — no cloud LB, no DNS records. | LoadBalancerService publishing and an OCI DNS provider. | Provide the LB path (OCI CCM `Service` LB integration) and DNS records ([HYPERFLEET-1594](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1594)). | | ||
| | machine-api-operator / control-plane-machine-set | No-op controller (`clusterAPIControllerNoOp`); Machine API not run. | An OCI machine controller manages guest machines. | Worker machines come from HyperShift NodePools via CAPOCI, not in-guest Machine API. | |
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This row implies a difference between the two options that doesn't exist for hosted clusters. Even on a first-class guest platform, hosted clusters never run in-guest Machine API; GCP hosted guests get their workers from NodePools via the management-side CAPI provider, same as OCI will. Suggest stating that this row is identical under both options. That's a point in the decision's favour, not against it.
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| - HyperFleet owns operational lifecycle it would not own on a named guest platform: deploying, upgrading, and monitoring the OCI CCM and CSI driver and their credential plumbing. Their images are not in the OpenShift release payload, which is itself an open decision ([HYPERFLEET-1582](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1582)). | ||
| - `External` is a generic contract, so there is no in-guest platform-status payload (region, compartment) beyond what HyperFleet renders explicitly; anything a named `platformStatus.oci` would expose must be carried in the cloud-provider `ConfigMap` and generic fields instead. |
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This bullet is correct, and it contradicts line 59. Keeping this one and fixing the follow-on bullet is the right way round. (No change needed here, anchor for the line 59 comment.)
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| Delivering the External guest path — the in-guest component set, built as HyperFleet operands like GCP's (epic [HYPERFLEET-1539](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1539)): | ||
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| - [HYPERFLEET-1553](https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/HYPERFLEET-1553) (Add OCI Infrastructure platform status and cloud config) — render External Infrastructure platform status (region, compartment) and the cloud-provider `ConfigMap` from the control plane operator's global config. |
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"Render External Infrastructure platform status (region, compartment)" can't be done as written: ExternalPlatformStatus has no region or compartment fields, as the trade-offs bullet at line 52 says correctly. Those values belong in the cloud-provider ConfigMap (or a HyperFleet-owned resource). Same issue exists in 1553's and the epic's acceptance criteria, which predate this decision; updating them is part of the spike's third acceptance criterion.
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Summary
Records the decision for HYPERFLEET-1593 (SPIKE): OCI hosted clusters present the OpenShift External platform to the guest cluster (
platformStatus.type: External,platformName: OCI,cloudControllerManager.state: External), rather than a first-classOCIplatform type inopenshift/api.This is orthogonal to the HostedCluster using the first-class
OCItype inhypershift/api(CAPOCI-based provisioning), which continues in parallel — the ADR is careful to separate the two platform layers.Why
Externalis the proven, GA, Red Hat-certified OCI contract in standalone OpenShift (Oracle ships its own CCM + CSI).platform-ociprototype (HYPERFLEET-1581) ran a full hosted control plane on OKE with the guest mapped to External on 2026-08-25.openshift/apiwould need an enhancement proposal plus coordinated changes across repos the team does not own (~1 year, multiple releases; Nutanix precedent).Research answered from the cluster-operator sources (per the ticket's acceptance criterion): each in-guest operator (CCM, storage, image registry, ingress, machine API) no-ops on
External, so HyperFleet owns the OCI operands. The ADR includes the per-operator matrix and the follow-on delivery stories.Changes
hyperfleet/adrs/0021-oci-external-platform.md(Status: Active).hyperfleet/adrs/README.md.Validation
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