[almighty] Brief report from Monday's meeting with James from fabric8

[Tomas Nozicka]

Hi Max,

Michael told me you are interested in results from our meeting with
James Rawlings from fabric8 team. We met with him to sort out some
question and concerns about architecture and to help us understand how
fabric8 works.

After a brief overview of fabric8 from James we discussed our security
concerns. Mainly about using docker builds and not being able to run
under SCC RunAsAny. James told us they can use S2I instead of docker
build when they detect OpenShift environment and that in their core
platform there is roughly just Jenkins which can't run as random user
but they can fix it fairly quickly.

After that we moved to discussing the new overall architecture and how
to integrate it together. We talked about a possibility of taking only
pipelines parts of fabric8 and making it work with Almighty instead of
the build subsystem designed earlier. We ran into the issue that they
have all the logic in the UI which to me seems like a design flaw /just
my opinion/ and for integration with Almighty we would have to
duplicate it in the backend. James thought we don't need the Build
service in the backend at all. Also fabic8 guys thought we were to
integrate Almighty into fabric8 and we thought the other way around.
But frankly this is the point where nobody is right or wrong because it
all depends on the biggest question:

  What are we building and what are the requirements for Summit?

I personally think that this should have been thought trough before the
merge but that does not matter now. What remains clear is that we
*urgently* need an answer to it from PM, otherwise we are unable to
continue with the design.

We finished by discussing what components of fabric8 need to be
deployed to target platform and Michael put it into our architecture
diagram.

I sincerely hope I didn't misinterpreted anyone's position along the
lines.

Regards,
Tomas