Status: IN
OpenShift lifecycle management must navigate a fundamental tension: install-time and update-time constraints create irreversible platform boundaries, while the node fleet is inherently heterogeneous (RHCOS immutable nodes vs. Windows nodes with different runtimes and networking) — meaning lifecycle operations must account for divergent upgrade paths and capability profiles within a single cluster.
depth-2 lifecycle boundaries + depth-2 heterogeneous node model combine into a constrained lifecycle management problem
Depends on (SL): platform-lifecycle-bounded-at-install-and-update, node-fleet-heterogeneous-runtime-model