Draft skeleton. Owner: SRE lead.
1
Obtain & verify the release package
2
Prepare the cluster
Namespace, secrets, storage classes per Prerequisites.
3
Install datastores
Or attach existing ones — installation order and health checks.
4
Install the streaming layer
Kafka, Schema Registry, Flink, Debezium.
5
Install ORCA services and the control tower
6
Import dashboards & alert rules
Grafana JSON ships in the release package.
7
Connect the first source and validate
Confirm the healthy pipeline shape: event volume decreases monotonically across stages.
8
Run smoke tests and sign off