Roadmap

This is a provisional roadmap for what we’d like to do in the coming releases.

• Split the ignite CLI into a client-server model (using e.g. gRPC)

  • The CLI should only be a thin wrapper that talks to ignited

  • With this ignite can be run without root

  • ignited will be run with root privileges, or in a container with capabilities specifically set

• Provide deb/rpm packages for an easier installation

• Add Virtual Kubelet support to ignited

  • ignited will register as a Virtual Kubelet in the target Kubernetes cluster

  • The VM API type will be register as a CustomResourceDefinition

• Use device-mapper Thin Provisioning for layering image -> kernel -> resize -> writable overlay

  • We might be able to utilize/vendor in containerd’s devicemapper snapshotter

• Define what’s in and out of scope for Ignite clearly, e.g.

  • Supporting to restart VMs or not

  • Supporting multiple network interfaces or not

  • Create one architecture diagram more and a design document

• Parallelized internal architecture for better performance

• Generate OpenAPI documentation and specifications

• Add support for CSI volumes