flux2/docs/roadmap/index.md

Roadmap

!!! hint "Work in Progress" We will be building the roadmap together with the Flux community, our end-users and everyone who is interested in integrating with us. So a lot of this is still TBD - read this as our shopping list of ideas after some brainstorming as Flux maintainers.

The road to Flux v2

Flux read-only feature parity

This would be the first stepping stone: we want the GitOps Toolkit to be on-par with today's Flux in read-only mode and FluxCloud notifications.

Goals

• Offer an in-place migration tool for those that are using Flux in read-only mode to synchronize plain manifests
• Offer a migration guide for those that are using Flux in read-only mode to synchronize Kustomize overlays
• Offer a dedicated component for forwarding events to external messaging platforms

Non-Goals

• Migrate users that are using Flux to run custom scripts with flux.yaml
• Automate the migration of flux.yaml kustomize users

Tasks

• Review the git source and kustomize APIs
• Design the events API
• Implement events in source and kustomize controllers
• Implement Prometheus metrics in source and kustomize controllers
• Make the kustomize-controller apply/gc events on-par with Flux v1 apply events
• Design the notifications and events filtering API
• Implement a notification controller for Slack, MS Teams, Discord, Rocket
• Implement the migration command in tk
• Create a migration guide for flux.yaml kustomize users

Flux image update feature parity

Goals

• Offer a dedicated component that can replace Flux v1 image update feature

Non-Goals

• Maintain backwards compatibility with Flux v1 annotations

Tasks

• Design the Git push API
• Implement Git push in source controller
• Design the image scanning API
• Implement an image scanning controller
• Design the manifests patching component
• Implement the image scan/patch/push workflow
• Integrate the new components in the toolkit assembler
• Create a migration guide from Flux annotations

The road to Helm Operator v2

Helm v3 feature parity

Goals

• Offer a migration guide for those that are using Helm Operator with Helm v3 and Helm repositories

Non-Goals

• Migrate users that are using Helm v2
• Migrate users that are using Helm charts from Git

Tasks

• Review the Helm release, chart and repository APIs
• Design Helm releases based on source API
• Implement a Helm controller for Helm v3 covering all the current release options
• Implement events in Helm controller
• Implement Prometheus metrics in Helm controller
• Create a migration guide for Helm Operator users