Mistral/Roadmap

Roadmap

Nov 25th, 2013. DSL/API v1.0 specifications. (DONE)
Apr, 2014. Release 0.0.2, PoC. (DONE)
- Basic DSL capabilities (dependencies, direct transitions, conditionals, cron trigger)
- REST API
- Python Client
- Command Line Interface
- Experimental Horizon Dashboard
- Integration with Keystone
Sept, 2014. Release 0.1. (DONE)
- Overall stability
- Action plugin mechanism
- Action packs for core OpenStack services (Nova, Keystone, Glance, Heat, Neutron)
- DSL v2
  - Multiple workflows within a workbook
  - Nested workflows (calling one workflow from another)
  - OpenStack related data awareness (project_id, auth_token etc.)
  - Engine commands (fail, success, pause)
  - Task policies
    - 'wait-before'
    - 'wait-after'
    - 'retry'
    - 'timeout'
  - Task defaults
- Horizon Dashboard (workbook CRUD operations, workflow execution state, history)
May, 2015. 2015.1. (DONE)
- "join" flow control
- Collection processing (with-items" control)
- Action execution objects to track processing of individual actions
- Workflow environments
- "pause-before" policy
- Multitenancy
- Workflow pause/resume
- Killing workflows
- Cron triggers for API v2
- HA testing & Benchmarking with Rally
- Multitenancy support
- Using <% %> placeholder for all YAQL expressions
- Default workflow/action input parameter values
- Validation of workflow/workbook DSL without uploading (separate endpoints)
- No-op tasks (e.g. can be used for synchronization of multiple workflow routes)
- Javascript action
- DB migrations
- Overall stability and production readiness
October, 2015. 2015.2. (to be discussed at Vancouver Summit)
- Advanced UI
  - Workflow visualization
  - Full CRUD for all API entities
  - Workbook/worklflow builder on Merlin
- Pause/resume with human intervention
- Integration with Zaqar
- Integration with Ceilometer
- Load-testing, benchmarking, more advanced integration tests (still need to discuss what and how)
- Client side usability