feature request: Self-serve maintain to self-trusted tier migration #82
Description
As a compute provider we are not currently empowered to relist our equipment on the market place. The current process involves reaching out to Hyperbolic on our Telegram group and having an engineer like Christian validate the health of the node and update its tier. This does not scale well on Hyperbolic's side and ultimately prevents us as compute providers from being able to self-serve issues and reach our optimal rental uptime.
We understand the need to validate nodes prior to listing them on the marketplace. This protects renter user experience, especially in a permissionless system. However, I suggest adding a "mock rental" flow to the supply gpu panel whereby we can attempt an end to end integration test without incurring any billing. This would be most useful when nodes are in maintain status. Currently, other than looking at whether all the pods in the kubernetes cluster are online and healthy there's little we can do. For example if the reverse proxy is unable to form a connection, there's no obvious way for us to see that unless a pod is crash looping.
If a mock rental works on our end the next logical step is to request a mock rental from the Hyperbolic side which, if passed, can be used as automated validation that the node can be moved to semi-trusted tier.