What problem are you trying to solve?

The subtle differences between cloud providers are starting to create a host of issues. See #2174, #2173, #1648 for examples. These are hard to replicate, debug and understand what might impact users after a release.

How should the problem be solved?

• Tooling to create clusters on the cloud providers with common configuration.
• Default RBAC, PSP and k8s components (such as helm).
• Installation of specific Linkerd versions.
• Target testing clusters, run the integration tests.
• Allow for long running tests (longer than 24 hours).
• Run tests in parallel on each provider.