Unify SKAO Dev/Test/Integration/Staging Environments

There is a need to design and decide how different environments(Dev/Test/Integration/Staging) should look like in different context such as STFC, PSIs, ITFs. By providing a unified approach to different environment managements would eliminate confusion and improve code quality throughout different test stages in each environment.

• Investigate, design, document and implement different environment use cases via ska-cicd-makefile and templates starting with SKAMPI
  • Teams should be able test their features in isolated environment and then shared environments
  • Staging environment(s) should be available to be used for different Demos(ART, PI).
  • Production(Pre-production) environment(s) should be available for continuous integration tests for interaction by providing on-demand environments
  • The process has been documented on Developer Portal on how to use different environments

• GitLab templates and makefile targets are created to support provisioning of one environment per repository for experimentation (This is now collecting feedback and could be improved with ease in future to support more use-cases)
• Combined with metalLB integration, it's presented in cop-tango and OMC Demo 14.6
• The process is described in developer portal