Cloud deployment of services

[gctucker]

Some standard components may be used as-is from Cloud resources such as Atlas, Redis and object storage, the FastAPI application and all the pipeline services need a Cloud deployment in containers managed directly. One way to approach this is to first provide support for a plain Kubernetes deployment of what is currently supported with docker-compose. Then we can look into optimising this for the new linux.kernelci.org production deployment with Azure containers and other Cloud resources.

• Investigate plain Kubernetes deployment #270
• Include plain Kubernetes deployment test as part of staging jobs #271
• Create early access Kubernetes deployment  #272
• Investigate MS Azure deployment option #18
• Update Kubernetes deployment with definitive production solution

[gctucker]

While we can use the Free AKS solution for staging and development, it sounds like the Standard one would be preferable for production clusters:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/kubernetes-service/#pricing