Provide (potential hierarchy of) recipes for deployment of templates
- For Kubernetes based projects (like Akraino) this could be a set of Helm charts or k8s manifests
- For other container based projects (which don't necessarily have K8S) this could be docker-compose
- For bare-metal deployments, we are open to suggestions on potential solutions
Have a web-page (per template) which consolidates these along with simple instructions and potential parameters

Examples

Work in progress here: Proposal is described here: https://github.com/ericvh/lfedge-catalog-proposal
An end-to-end example with cloud and edge components is shown here: https://github.com/ericvh /lfedge-catalog-proposal/blob/update/SMARTER_example.md
artifacthub.io : maintains a catalog of public helm charts and has a concept of organizations (so we could host under an LFEdge organization there)
- Organizational View Example: https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?org=smarter&sort=relevance&page=1
- Project View Example: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/device-managersmarter/smarter-device-manageredge
- We could potentially augment descriptions with badges (Cassini Ready, etc.)
hub.balena.io: has a similar structure to the above, but actually couples a container recipe with a platform to provide a burnable sdcard
rancher provides a git repository of recipes: https://github.com/rancher/community-catalog which are used by their platform to provide catalog based installation
portal.sagecontinuum.org maintains a catalog of edge deployable applications for their smarter-cities project
portainer.io maintains git repositories of templates which are then deployable using their portainer.io tool (including the community edition)

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For helm appropriate projects (those that use kubernetes as a base layer)
- helm-ifying (as necessary) template components
- umbrella helm which deploys those components
- role-designation methodology for multi-node blueprints (or even to specify cloud-side versus edge-side)
- host on a catalog platform
For other projects
- TBD - options include using things like portainer.io or just docker-compose, but unaware of a artifacthub.io equivalent for those so maybe just github/gitlab?

Proposal

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