OpenShift Installer: Past, Present, & a Potential Future

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openshift-install is a directed acyclic graph that turns a minimal install config into Kubernetes manifests and giant ignition files, and it provisions cloud resources; the codebase migrates off Terraform after HashiCorp’s 2023 license change and finishes a full replacement with Cluster API by v4.19 (five platforms moved in the first CAPI release). a local prototype exposes the installer as an MCP server to an LLM agent (built like Cloud Code CLI with an Anthropic MCP file server) that can validate configs and call the binary locally; it works for simple flows but falls short on complex, advanced scenarios.

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1. 0:00OpenShift installer journey
2. 1:06Evolving the installer
3. 2:51Installer development history
4. 5:01Removing Terraform for Cluster API
5. 5:44Installer design fundamentals
6. 8:35How assets are generated
7. 13:41Infrastructure provisioning
8. 14:45Terraform to Cluster API transition
9. 16:30Cluster API benefits
10. 20:29Installation methods overview
11. 21:51Conway's law and fragmentation
12. 23:17AI integration exploration
13. 24:20AI tool prototype
14. 25:25MCP server for installer
15. 28:11AI use cases for install
16. 30:02Live AI-assisted install demo
17. 32:22Q&A

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