livepeer / livepeer/grants

Wish List: Infrastructure management tools

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Description

**The Problem**
Orchestrators/Transcoders currently have the base layer functionality available via the Livepeer node to set up an Orchestrator/Transcoder setup, but this falls far short of an "easy to manage" toolset to give them visibility and management capability over their cluster.

**Potential Solutions**
Open source tools that let infrastructure operators easily view the status of their various Orchestrator and Transcoder processes, let them add and remove transcoders from their cluster, let them adjust pricing on the fly, let them get alerts when things go down or there are required protocol interactions pending, etc would be hugely helpful to those running infrastructure on the Livepeer network.

This probably combines writing some wrapper code on the raw functionality of the Livepeer node software, along with creating an interface for visibility and management of the infrastructure.

**Challenges**
All the APIs exist to do this, either in Livepeer world through the node APIs and smart contract interactions, or through publicly available infrastructure management tools like Docker, Kubernetes, etc...but the devops work of piecing them together, scripting them, and creating interfaces on top can be a challenge.

**Summary**
If people propose building open source tools that are valuable to the infrastructure operator community here, this is an area that we would love to support with grants.

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Research direction

No specific files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the Livepeer node APIs and smart contract interactions, then assess Docker and Kubernetes tooling mentioned in the issue. Done would require a defined open-source toolset that provides infrastructure visibility and management capabilities for operators.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker, kubernetes
Domain
devops, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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