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ADR031: Separate PaaS services from the Platform core pipeline

Context

We have a single pipeline create-cloudfoundry which creates a Cloud Foundry deployment, and also deploys additional services to the platform.

These services include:

• PaaS Accounts
• PaaS Admin
• PaaS Billing
• PaaS Metrics

Which are core components to our platform, but not to Cloud Foundry.

Currently these services are unnecessarily coupled in a couple of places:

• The post-deploy job
• The custom-acceptance-tests job

Unnecessarily coupling has resulted in flakey app tests blocking CVE remediation from reaching production.

Decision

Move, where possible, PaaS services into their own jobs (within the same create-cloudfoundry pipeline) such that they do not impede progress of deployment to the core platform.

Status

Accepted

Consequences

The pipeline will no longer be fully controlled by the pipeline-lock pool.

The individual jobs in the pipeline will be less mysterious.