There have been asks from partners and prospective customers regarding the feasibility of deploying EMCO in production. There are some areas where EMCO needs enhancements to get it closer to production. Hopefully, the community can come together and contribute to an initiative that identifies the gaps, determines the enhancements needed to fill those gaps, and delivers those enhancements across multiple EMCO releases.

To get EMCO closer to production state, two important areas that need enhancements are Observability and Resiliency.

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Question: can we recommend the GitOps approach and leave things as is? If not, we need to fix this.

Storage Considerations

We need storage in the cluster where EMCO runs for:

• mongo db
• etcd
• logs
• metrics? (assuming we aggregate cluster metrics in the central cluster via federated Prometheus, Thanos, Cortex, ....)
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