[EPIC] Improve the supportability of CAPG (LFX Spring 2023 Mentorship)

[richardcase]

/kind feature
/help

Describe the solution you'd like

We would like to improve the supportability of CAPG. We would like to make it easier for operations/support users to investigate issues with CAPG.

There will be a number of areas of improvement:

• Add tracing using something like OpenTelemetry. This will enable us to see how many and how long reconcile loops, GCP API calls etc take, which will be very helpful for issue investigation.
• Add a pprof endpoint that can be enabled

Anything else you would like to add:
[Miscellaneous information that will assist in solving the issue.]

Items to do (not exhaustive yet)

• Implement OTEL in CAPG
• Docs
• e2e test to be added
• otel backend for local dev
• otel backend for e2e

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Describe the solution you'd like

We would like to improve the supportability of CAPG. We would like to make it easier for operations/support users to investigate issues with CAPG.

There will be a number of areas of improvement:

• Add tracing using something like OpenTelemetry. This will enable us to see how many and how long reconcile loops, AWS API calls etc take which will be very helpful for issue investigation.
• Add a pprof endpoint that can be enabled

Anything else you would like to add:
[Miscellaneous information that will assist in solving the issue.]

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[richardcase]

This will be used for the LFX mentorship Spring 2023 program. Until that starts:

/assign

[MdSahil-oss]

@richardcase This feature looks interesting to me, I would like to work on this feature as an lfx mentee, can you give me brief idea about the prerequisites to learn ?

[hackeramitkumar]

@richardcase it's an interesting feature, I would like to contribute to this feature in the spring mentorship, can you give me an idea about the prerequisites?

[richardcase]

Thanks @MdSahil-oss and @hackeramitkumar 👍

[richardcase]

Some information for anyone interested in this.

The LFX Spring Mentorship program will open for applications between 1st - 14th February. The applications are then reviewed & decided upon between 15 - 28th February. And then the mentorship program begins 1st March and ends May 26.

You will not need access to your own GCP account, as you will be added to one you can use for this issue during the mentorship period.

For prerequisites:

• Golang
• Kubernetes

Everything else (like Cluster API, tracing, profiling) will be learnt as part of the mentorship.

[richardcase]

When it comes to the application, the more information you can supply as to why this interests you and what you expect to gain from mentorship will help the reviewers.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or ping me or @cpanato in Slack.

[hackeramitkumar]

@richardcase thank you very much.

[dharmicksai]

Hello all 👋
I am Dharmick a final-year undergrad student from India,

This proposal looks really exciting 🔥💥
Looking forward to contributing to LFX this spring

[Chinwendu20]

Ohh interesting currently contributing to open telemetry now. Looking forward to contributing to this essential tool that I use as a DevOps engineer

[lucky29-git]

Hey @richardcase and @cpanato , I'm Chandrashekhar from India . I started my journey of opensource with Hacktoberfest 2022 and it excites me a lot . I'm really interested in this project and would like to contribute in it .
My Techstack's are - Java , Go , Docker , Kubernetes
and currently learning other devops chapters .

[exitflynn]

I am very excited about this as well! 😁 🤠

[richardcase]

Thanks everyone. The project looks like its listed now:

https://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/project/55469b74-0c98-44f1-b8e1-4244a736bf82

[MdSahil-oss]

Yaay! Now It's time for proposals submission

[richardcase]

The dates have slightly changed and applications are now open until 21st Feb.

The full timeline can be seen here: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/lfx-mentorship/2023/01-Mar-May#term-01---2023-march---may

[Chinwendu20]

• Add tracing using something like OpenTelemetry. This will enable us to see how many and how long reconcile loops, AWS API calls etc take which will be very helpful for issue investigation.

Anything else you would like to add: [Miscellaneous information that will assist in solving the issue.]

Should this AWS API calls be GCP API calls?

[richardcase]

Good spot @Chinwendu20, thanks - updated.

[ChrisJon02]

Hey @richardcase , I applied for LFX mentorship to contribute to this project. I'm looking forward to contributing to this which is an interesting feature.

[richardcase]

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[meobilivang]

Hi @richardcase @cpanato 👋 Glad to be onboard! Pls add me to the Issue so we can get started 💪

[richardcase]

/assign meobilivang

[c0ffeeschwarz]

hmm i was really looking forward to this, did you encounter technical issues and stopped or what was the reason?

[richardcase]

hmm i was really looking forward to this, did you encounter technical issues and stopped or what was the reason?

No technical issue, the LFX mentorship came to an end and we couldn't get it in. I will re-open the PR and we can resurrect this.

@c0ffeeschwarz - let me know if you'd like to help out.