Roadmap

Development Roadmap

This roadmap is a living document outlining the major technical improvements which we would like to see in minikube during 2021, divided by how they apply to our guiding principles

Please send a PR to suggest any improvements to it.

2021

(#1) Inclusive and community-driven

Maintainers from 4 countries, 4 companies
Enhancements approved by a community-driven process
Installation documentation in 5+ written languages

(#2) User-friendly

Automatic installation of hypervisor dependencies
Graphical User Interface
Built-in 3rd Party ecosystem with 50+ entries

(#3) Support all Kubernetes features

Multi-node
IPv6
Usage documentation for 3 leading CNI providers
Automatically publish conformance test results after a release

(#4) Cross-platform

VM-free deployment to containers (Docker, Podman)
Windows as a first-class citizen
WSL2 support (no additional VM required)
Firecracker VM support
Generic (SSH) driver support

(#5) Reliable

Resource alerts
Time synchronization on HyperKit
Prototype post-libmachine implementation of minikube

(#6) High Performance

Startup latency under 30s
Pause support
<25% CPU overhead on a single core
Kernel-assisted mounts (CIFS, NFS) by default

(#7) Developer Focused

Container build integration
Documented workflow for Kubernetes development

Last modified August 6, 2021: Mark ssh driver and image build as completed (2d4b88bb2)