Mistral/Roadmap
< Mistral
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
- 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. 1.0.0.0. (DONE)
- UI: CRUD for all API entities
- Pause/resume with human intervention
- Service API (tracking distributed components)
- Pagination support in API
- Transition to YAQL 1.0
- Property "concurrency" for "with-items" to limit pararellism
- "continue-on" property for "retry" policy
- A series improvements in HA (e.g. more reliable Scheduler)
- Expiration policy for workflow/task/action execution objects
- Improvements in documentation (now published at docs.openstack.org/developer/mistral)
- Running individual actions
- Workflow variables
- April, 2016. 2.0.0.0.
- Actions for Ceilometer, Barbican, Mistral (to call Mistral from Mistral), Swift
- Mistral Docker Image
- Sharing resources between tenants
- Guest network connectivity reference architecture and guidelines
- CRUD for all entities in Mistral Dashboard
- Stability improvements
- October, 2016. 3.0.0.0.
- Multi-site and multi-region support
- Custom Actions API (advanced API and toolkit for creating new actions)
- Actions for Designate, Magnum
- Role-based Access Control for Rest API (policy.json file)
- Pluggable YAQL functions
- FIFO-like task scheduling at workflow level
- API v3 (better naming consistency, advanced functionality like filtering and pagination)
- CLI v3 (better usability and all changes according to API v3)
- Support for multiple authentication methods (Keystone, OIDC)
- Significant architectural improvements
- Overall stability improvements