Will Cells apply to Self Managed?
Purpose
This is forking the discussion started: gitlab-org/quality/reference-architectures#245 (comment 1557530251)
I was starting the discussion on what changes need to be done to Reference Architectures(RA), GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), and Reference Architecture Tester (RAT) to support Tenant Scale (and Cells in particular). I realize that this might be early for this discussion to happen, but wanted to make sure that we have the tools in place when we need them, rather than scrambling when the need is urgent...
RA/GET/RAT are all mostly focused on sizing/standing up/testing Self Managed instances. Most of the discussion I've seen around Tenant Scale and Self Managed has been around making sure that we don't introduce a maintenance burden. I've heard some talk about Dedicated as well. Are we at the point that we have a vision of how Tenant Scale will affect Self Managed (or are we focused only on SaaS)?
Tasks
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Determine if RA/GET/RAT have changes that need to be done to support Cells -
Document a path forward for any necessary changes