Admin UX - How to configure the network?

[michalporeba]

Question

What is the user experience that should be available for network administrators to add new nodes, and perhaps new data sources.

Background

Is the network configurations, the other nodes to which a given node has access to federate the queries an infrastructure, data or metadata problem?

Should it be possible to manage network nodes using standard UI or would it be better to make it a deployment type activity which is better suited for automation in deployment pipelines?