Roadmap

Date: 2021-01-01 to 2021-03-30

Core Platform

Add Application object as the deployment unit applied to k8s control plane.
- The new Application object will handle CUE template rendering on the server side. So the appfile would be translated to Application object directly without doing client side rendering.
- CLI/UI will be updated to replace ApplicationConfiguration and Component objects with Application object.
Integrate Terraform as one of the core templating engines so that platform builders can add Terraform modules as Workloads/Traits into KubeVela.
Re-architect API Server to have clean API and storage layer as designed.
Automatically sync Catalog server and display packages information as designed.
Add Rollout CRD to do native Workload and Application level application rollout management.
Support intermediate store (e.g. ConfigMap) and JSON patch operations in data input/output.

Rewrite dashboard to support up-to-date Vela object model.
- Support dynamic form rendering based on OpenAPI schema generated from Definition objects.
- Support displaying pages of applications, capabilities, catalogs.
Automatically generate reference docs for capabilities and support displaying them in CLI/UI devtools.

Integrate with S2I (Source2Image) tooling like Derrick to enable more developer-friendly workflow in appfile.
Integrate with Dapr to enable end-to-end microservice application development and deployment workflow.