This document relates to investigative work being carried out on the Jira ticket POLICY-3809. This work specification is in response to requirements set out by IDUN for integrating the policy framework kubernetes pods / helm charts into their system. The general requirements of the investigation are below:
- How to create a Kubernetes environment that can be spun up and made available on demand on suitable K8S infrastructure
- How to write suitable test suites to verify the functional requirements below would be developed.
- How such test suites could be done using "Contract Testing".
Functional Requirements Detail
Note that in Postgres, many of the features below are available. In the verification environment, we want to verify that the Policy Framework continues to work in the following scenarios:
- Synchronization and Load Balancing
- Failover
- Backup and Restore
In addition the environment should:
- Support measurement of Performance Lag
- Use secure communication towards the Database
- Verify that auditing of database operations is working