Explore Kubeapps distribution as Carvel package

[ppbaena]

Description:

As first step to add Kubeapps as a package of Tanzu Community Edition, it is necessary to revisit all requirements (here).

Once Kubeapps team will guarantee the compliance, a proposal will be sent to make Kubeapps available as a Tanzu package as part of Tanzu Community Edition.

Acceptance criteria

• Revisit current status for distributing Kubeapps as a Carvel package
• Revisit compliance with prerequisites
• Create an issue to request to make Kubeapps available as a Tanzu package as part of Tanzu Community Edition.

Additional information

Interesting to take a look to the initial comments about Kubeapps in TCE (here)

[absoludity]

I've been working on this as a background task (as it requires a few different communication points with carvel + bitnami teams).

[absoludity]

I've created vmware-tanzu/community-edition#3732 with the details for the proposal, as well as the compliance with the prerequisites (ie. current feedback from slack is that we can use helm-template even though the TCE docs don't mention it). Also checked internally about current tooling for Kubeapps as carvel. Not yet sure how much we can re-use due to required input (public chart, not TAC chart) and output (git repo of source, rather than registry with package).