Roadmap

Kanister Roadmap

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Project and Governance Work

1. Lifecycle for contributors: Roles, Privs, and lifecycle
   1. project admin?
   2. maintainer (core)
   3. reviewer+approval: PR + branch protections?
   4. contributor
2. Blueprints Maintenance and Support Policy
   1. project test matrix: Kopia vs Restic vs Stow, downstream adopters vs Kanister standalone
   2. community maintained examples: move to a new public repo

Development Work

Prioritized (Doing):

1. Fork block storage functions, deprecate unused Kanister code
2. Kopia.io Repository Controller with a CR to control the lifecycle of a Kopia Repository Server
3. Replace github.com/pkg/errors package with a supported fork = https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/1838
4. Release notes
5. Adopt OpenSSF Best Practices Badge

Backlog: (Ideas and maintenance, unprioritized)

Discussion and Issues to be created/qualified:

1. Track and log events triggered by Blueprint Actions: @PrasadG193 to create
2. Vault integration for Repository Server secrets: @mlavi to create
3. Deprecate Restic, blocked on Kopia work: @e-sumin to create
4. Replace http://gopkg.in/check.v1 with a better test framework
5. Plugability of data mover; S3 and more: GH discussion attempt; add to agenda
6. App mobility: discussion

Existing Requests

1. ARM support
2. Generate Kanister controller using KubeBuilder - currently based on Rook operator resurrect https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/issues/193
3. Merge the Repository controller into the Kanister controller.
4. Support for creation of blueprints/actionsets in application namespaces https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/discussions/2922
5. Support iterating over multiple resources with the same function https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister/discussions/3001