Sort Cloud Profiles

[grolu]

The Garden Administrator needs an option to sort cloud profiles. This could be achieved by adding an annotation to all cloud profiles with an integer value. The annotation should be part of the garden cluster setup. This value could be used by the Gardener Dashboard (and other Tools / UIs) to sort infrastructures, as well as multiple Cloud Profiles within an infrastructure.

Imagine the following Cloud Profiles:

apiVersion: garden.sapcloud.io/v1beta1
kind: CloudProfile
metadata:
  name: aws
  annotations:
    garden.sapcloud.io/priority: 200
spec:
  aws:
...

apiVersion: garden.sapcloud.io/v1beta1
kind: CloudProfile
metadata:
  name: openstack-1
  annotations:
    garden.sapcloud.io/priority: 102
spec:
  openstack:
...

apiVersion: garden.sapcloud.io/v1beta1
kind: CloudProfile
metadata:
  name: openstack-2
  annotations:
    garden.sapcloud.io/priority: 101
spec:
  openstack:
...

Currently they would be ranked like this:

Infrastructures:

• aws
• openstack:
  • openstack-1
  • openstack-2

With the annotation, the dashboard would order the Cloud Profiles like this:

Infrastructures:

• openstack:
  • openstack-2
  • openstack-1
• aws

This feature helps to highlight / promote specific infrastructures or cloud profiles. It could also help reducing costs by ranking cheaper options first.

[grolu]

And alternative way to solve this would be to allow to set preferred / default infrastructure and secret per project in the dashboard. This setting could be persisted as annotation on the project resource and would be shared with all members of a project.

[grolu]

@vlerenc @petersutter @holgerkoser I'm not sure about this. I don't think that someone actively requested this feature?

[vlerenc]

Hmm... @grolu wasn't there a planned application of that feature by @RaphaelVogel , but maybe we solved it differently? I can't recall anymore.

[grolu]

Closed this as this does not seem to be a requirement.

[grolu]

#1553
will solve this