Syndesis 2.0 to use Camel K as runtime engine

[lburgazzoli]

This is a...

[X] Feature request
[ ] Regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped working in a new release)
[ ] Bug report  
[ ] Documentation issue or request

Description

As camel-k is heading toward version 1.0.0 I think it would be good to start planning to make it the default runtime engine and completely drop spring-boot support.

There are a number of reason to switch to camel-k as default engine, like:

• fast iterations as camel-k can make intelligent choices about how and when new container images have to be created in contrast to the spring-boot model that required to rebuild the fat-jar every time
• native support for Knative
• native support for Quarkus

The switch is not free as there are a number of areas in which both Syndesis and camel-k need to be enhanced, like:

• support for extensions
  • Let dependencies be defined using file URLs apache/camel-k#1227
  • support for dependencies archive apache/camel-k#334
  • [camel-k] [syndesis-extensions] SPIKE : investigate how to share extensions between syndesis and camel-k #4297
  • [camel-k] [resource-cleanup] garbage-collect unused contexts #4288
• support of OpenAPI v3 (Replace camel-swagger-rest-dsl-generator with camel-openapi-rest-dsl-generator apache/camel-k-runtime#232)
• Use camel-k for to materialize syndesis-meta Leverage camel-k to materialize syndesis-meta #7686

We may also think about generating integrations using camel-k's YAML DSL to further decouple Syndesis from the runtime integration implementation

References

• https://github.com/syndesisio/syndesis/wiki/Meeting-Notes#meeting-jan-29-2020
• https://github.com/syndesisio/syndesis/wiki/Planning-for-Syndesis-2.0

[delokman]

Hello @lburgazzoli
thanks to open this issue,
how long take time to implement this feature?

[Delawen]

@lburgazzoli we are moving forwards with this (see https://github.com/syndesisio/syndesis/projects/8).

Is this still accurate? Did something changed after the release? Any hints you can share?

[lburgazzoli]

Except for the extensions, the other bits are still accurate.

About extension I'd wait a little bit more as we are working on the kamelets see:

• https://github.com/apache/camel-k/projects/18
• https://github.com/apache/camel-k-runtime/projects/1

And that could completely change how we deal with extensions.