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Create a better UX for experimental charts in the Apps and Marketplace - opt-in to experimental charts #5170

Open rosskirkpat opened 2 years ago

rosskirkpat commented 2 years ago

Currently, there are two UX issues when it comes to experimental charts:

1) if the latest version of a chart is marked as experimental there is no ability in the UI to filter out experimental chart versions to show the latest version that is not marked as experimental.

2) If a chart has an experimental version, once selecting the chart to install you no longer see the experimental tag

Solutions:

UX Issue #1

Adding this feature would allow us to create an opt-in experience for displaying experimental charts where the user has to check a box stating something along the lines of "Show experimental charts". All of the charts shown when this box is not checked would be considered as "stable" charts.

This also provides far more flexibility on the rancher/charts side of the house as we can publish an experimental chart and a customer who has not opted-in to experimental charts would not have their UX change.

An example use-case for this is the vsphere-csi charts. We are working to bring in the newly added upstream support for Windows in the csi node daemonset via a new experimental version of the vsphere-csi chart. We want to make this chart available to rke2 windows customers on 2.6.4 but if the changes were merged today, the experimental chart would show as the latest/default chart for all customers when 2.6.4 is released. This is not the overall customer experience that we want to deliver on the GA release.

With this feature, the rke2 windows customers in the use-case would be able to opt-in to the experimental charts and install the vsphere-csi chart when 2.6.4 is released.

UX Issue #2

If a chart has a mix of non-experimental and experimental versions or only has experimental versions, we should show experimental next to the version of the chart. This is the same concept as charts showing (linux-only) when selecting a chart version. The sriov chart only has experimental versions and as you can see below, the versions are not marked as experimental once you click the sriov chart card to install it.

sriov chart

lvuch commented 2 years ago

related: https://github.com/rancher/dashboard/issues/5007

catherineluse commented 1 year ago

@rosskirkpat Which charts are experimental? is vsphere-csi charts the only one?