Solum/HighLevelRoadmap

System Overview

Program Scope

For developers: Provide an easy to use, fast experience developing applications for OpenStack , by providing an automated CI/CD pipeline.

For release managers: Provide streamlined application lifetime management via Environments (dev,test,staging,prod), permissions(I.e. who can deploy to prod),what tests get run in which environment, usage/cost information per environment, etc

The program vision consists of the following 4 items-

1. CI: Source to image (continuous integration pipeline)

 - GIT, build+unit test, generate image, run functional tests, persist image for deployment via Heat

2. CD

 - automated deployment, management of running apps(monitoring, autoscaling, self-healing), blue green deployments, application versioning and rollbacks

3. Environments

 - permissions(I.e. who can deploy to prod),what tests get run in which environment, usage/cost information per environment, etc

4. Developer tooling

 - IDE plugins, SDK's, CLI, UI console

Solum Roadmap

Milestone 2014.1.2: Basic app deployment functionality

SOLUM-R1: Application deployment/management [R1.1 (Story 1 and 2 only), R1.2, R1.3]
SOLUM-R2: Capability: Language pack framework along with automatic selection of packs [R2.1]
SOLUM-R3: Enable language ‘X’ via the language pack framework [Pick any of Java, Ruby, Python, Node.js, PHP]
SOLUM-R4: User Authentication
Blueprints: https://launchpad.net/solum/+milestone/milestone-1

Milestone 2014.1.3: Get Ready for Atlanta Summit

UI mockup to reflect program vision
Reliability improvements: bug fixes
Usability improvements: documentation, sample apps, better logging

Milestone 2014.2: Juno-1: Source to Image Pipeline-phase 1

Ability to configure unit tests to be run as part of CI pipeline
Postpone: Ability to configure functional tests to be run as part of CI pipeline, via spinning up a temporary test assembly
Postpone: Custom language packs
Nova docker driver improvements
Logging improvements (for operator persona)

Milestone 2014.2.2: Juno-2: Source to Image Pipeline-phase 2

Postpone: Historical status of CI pipeline runs: status of build, unit tests, functional tests [success/failures, time metrics, execution logs]
Postpone: Streaming logs – consolidated view of logs for a given app (user/developer persona)
Ability for user to configure source to image pipeline (Pipeline resource)
CLI operations to support source to image pipeline
UI console to support source to image pipeline

Milestone 2014.2.3: Juno-3

Custom Language Pack

- As an operator, I can codify setup of custom build+language stack, and make it available to application developers so that they can start using the custom stack for CI (build, run tests, generate DU). 
- as an application developer, I can codify setup of my custom build+language stack, and have Solum use my custom stack for CI.

Access to logs : as an application developer, I would be able to access build and test logs for my CI invocations on Solum. I want my logs to be accessible only to me.

Trove Integration: as an application developer, I would be able to deploy apps that have ready access to trove MySQL service.

Jenkins Integration: as a customer already using Jenkins for my CI needs, I would be able to integrate my Jenkins CI instance with Solum and have access to Solum features (i.e. persist build output produced by Jenkins in glance via Solum, automated deployments, etc.)

LanguagePack-Java Tomcat 7: as an application developer, I can deploy my Java Tomcat 7 web app via Solum without having to deal with build scripts or setup of the language runtime

LanguagePack-Node.js: as an application developer, I can deploy my Node.js web app via Solum without having to deal with setup of the language runtime

Sample apps: as an application developer, I can build my apps without having to start from scratch by customizing sample apps provided by Solum. Sample Apps for Java Tomcat 7 and Node.js

Horizontal Scaleout: as an application developer, I would be able to horizontal scale out my apps via a load balanced set of app container instances

Milestone 2015.1

.Net support (via Mono)
Service Add-on framework
Enable following services via the Add-on framework: MongoDB, NewRelic, Trove, MemCache
Application performance monitoring (CPU, memory utilization, etc.)
Manual scaling
Dense packing
Application Isolation
Complete application deployment and management API + CLI listed @ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Solum/FeatureBlueprints/ApplicationDeploymentAndManagement

Milestone 2015.1.2

Auto scaling
Self-healing
Custom SSL Certificates
Container Sleep/Wake
Blue/green deployments

Milestone 2015.1.3

Environments (Dev, Test, Prod, custom)
- Application Lifecycle Management (promote code from dev to test to prod)
SDK for interfacing with the PaaS REST API
Roles and privileges

Milestone 2015.2

Non-web workloads (Background and scheduled jobs)
HA via distributed placement of load balanced set of code container instances
Network isolation - dedicated private network for applications
IDE Plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ, JBoss Studio, Komodo
Integration with online IDE
Online developer sandbox
Additional services