Operations Tab MVC

In the next few months, we will begin to deliver more and more Operations related features, for example:

• Tracing: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4753
• Logging: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4752
• Alerting: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5158

We also already have a few features related to operations, such as:

• Kubernetes clusters
• Metrics
• Environments

We should consider how we want to organize our UI to logically present this data to our users.

Proposal

Create a new Operations top level item in the sidebar, after the CI/CD tab. Initially as an absolute minimum MVC it would then contain the below. If someone were to click on Operations directly they would be shown the Environments screen.

• Environments
  • Existing Environments list from the CI/CD section
• Kubernetes cluster
  • Existing Kubernetes cluster screen

The icon for the new Operations section is icn/cloud-gear.

Since Environments and Kubernetes are moving to Operations, they need to be removed from CI / CD.