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.

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