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

TBD: Work in Progress

Solum Roadmap

Previous milestones

SOLUM-R1: Application deployment/management [R1.1 (Story 1 and 2 only), R1.2, R1.3]
SOLUM-R4: User Authentication
Blueprints: https://launchpad.net/solum/+milestone/milestone-1
Reliability improvements: bug fixes
Ability to configure unit tests to be run as part of CI pipeline
Retry on failures: as an application developer, if the CI invocation faiIs due to any reason, I would be able to trigger rerun of the CI workflow without resubmitting the code.

Milestone: Kilo

Custom Language Pack

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

Implement Python language pack + sample app

Implement Java Tomcat 7 language pack + sample app

Implement Ruby on rails language pack + sample app

Demonstrate MySQL Trove integration with an app deployed on Solum

Access to logs : as an application developer, I would be able to access build, test and deployment logs for my apps on Solum.

- I want my logs to be accessible only to me
- I want to be able to view summary log data (build pass/pail, test pass/fail, number of tests passed/failed etc)
- I want to view my logs scoped to individual pull requests 
- I want to be able to drill down into detail logs
- I would like to see user friendly logs i.e. logs meant to be consumed by an app developer persona
- on private repos I want all GitHub collaborators on the repo to have access to the test logs. For public repos, I want the public to have access to the test logs.

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.)

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

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