Identify minimal setup for using Metering with CRC (mostly complete)

crc_1.11_ocp_4.4.5_min_metering

Identify minimal setup for using Metering completely with CRC

crc version
crc version: 1.11.0+883ca49
OpenShift version: 4.4.5 (embedded in binary)

No-fuss CR file that works with CRC for installing Metering

cat $METERING_CR_FILE

apiVersion: metering.openshift.io/v1
kind: MeteringConfig
metadata:
  name: "operator-metering"
  annotations:
    "ansible.operator-sdk/verbosity": "1"
spec:
  storage:
    type: "hive"
    hive:
      type: "sharedPVC"
      sharedPVC:
        createPVC: true
        storageClass: " "
        size: 25Gi
        
initial list of disabled operators:

oc get clusterversion version -ojsonpath='{range .spec.overrides[*]}{.name}{"\n"}{end}' | nl -v 0
     0	cluster-monitoring-operator
     1	machine-config-operator
     2	etcd-quorum-guard
     3	machine-api-operator
     4	cluster-autoscaler-operator
     5	insights-operator
     6	prometheus-k8s
     7	cloud-credential-operator
     8	csi-snapshot-controller-operator
     9	cluster-storage-operator
    10	kube-storage-version-migrator-operator

Also turning on machine-api-operator with, for instance:
oc patch clusterversion/version --type='json' -p '[{"op":"remove", "path":"/spec/overrides/2"}]' -oyaml
didn't change the available datasource data.

This is pretty scriptable if you also creating the MeteringConfig custom resource doing something like this:

cat <<EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: metering.openshift.io/v1
kind: MeteringConfig
metadata:
  name: "operator-metering"
  annotations:
    "ansible.operator-sdk/verbosity": "1"
spec:
  storage:
    type: "hive"
    hive:
      type: "sharedPVC"
      sharedPVC:
        createPVC: true
        storageClass: " "
        size: 25Gi
EOF