Host KWOK provider images in public ECR

[alec-rabold]

Description

What problem are you trying to solve?

I'm using the KWOK CloudProvider in a non-local Kubernetes cluster, which currently requires building the image manually. I noticed there's already a karpenter/kwok ECR repository here: https://gallery.ecr.aws/karpenter/kwok -- is there any chance Karpenter could host its KWOK provider there?

How important is this feature to you?

Mostly an ease-of-use improvement; happy to contribute to this!

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[jonathan-innis]

That strikes me as completely reasonable -- I think the only question that was left remaining is that this would have to use kubernetes-sigs resources to add this repo to an AWS account own by K8s and ensure that we use our GHA or prow to build and push changes to that repo.

I would also make sure that we callout that there's nothing "stable" about the KWOK provider (though I don't necessarily think that we need that level of guarantee) -- we often break it right now because we don't have a robust testing suite to support it

[jonathan-innis]

cc: @dims or others that can help with infra resources

[jonathan-innis]

/traige accepted

[jmdeal]

/triage accepted

[alec-rabold]

Nice! I'm stoked to hear that ; is there anything I can help with on my end? It sounds like there's some private infra resources that need to be set up first?

[jonathan-innis]

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure on the process. I think we need to coordinate with the test-infra folks to get a prow job to make this work.