Investigate usage of VMC for CAPV tests

[ameukam]

CAPV currently run tests inside VMware-owned AWS account using vSphere Cloud on AWS service(VMC). The service can be used on the community infrastructure.

It's still unclear to me how VMC is integrated to VMware Cloud.

Update: projects eligible :

• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder
• https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere

/sig cluster-lifecycle
/area infra/aws
/priority important-longterm
/milestone v1.29

[ameukam]

cc @sbueringer @chrischdi @killianmuldoon @fabriziopandini

[ameukam]

cc @dims

[dims]

supportive for sure. Let's come up with some numbers for how much it costs for helping with the decision making process.

[chrischdi]

*Adding cloud-provider-vsphere to the list, because they use the same environment / capabilities (share the same environment)

[sbueringer]

Also image-builder

[ameukam]

supportive for sure. Let's come up with some numbers for how much it costs for helping with the decision making process.

@dims I think for the transition we will need an environment with 6 hosts. According to the pricing calculator, we estimate the monthly cost of $32k per month.

[dims]

@ameukam wow, that's quite a lot per year. especially if we add some head room (say 40k/month means close to half-a-million)

[dims]

@ameukam can you please check if there's something can be done from VMware side?