github.com/cilium/cilium@v1.16.2/Documentation/community/roadmap.rst (about) 1 .. only:: not (epub or latex or html) 2 3 WARNING: You are looking at unreleased Cilium documentation. 4 Please use the official rendered version released here: 5 https://docs.cilium.io 6 7 Roadmap 8 ======= 9 10 This page describes a high-level view of the main priorities for the project, 11 agreed as a result of collaboration between Cilium's committers_ and the 12 broader community. You'll also find here some pointers on how you can 13 :ref:`influence the roadmap<rm-influence>`. 14 15 Major Feature Status 16 -------------------- 17 18 +--------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 19 | eBPF Networking | Stable (:ref:`Roadmap Details<rm-advanced-networking>`) | 20 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 21 || :ref:`Kubernetes CNI<k8s_network_root>` | Stable | 22 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 23 || `Load Balancing`_ | Stable | 24 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 25 || :ref:`k8s_policy` | Stable | 26 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 27 || :ref:`Kube-proxy Replacement<kubeproxy-free>` | Stable | 28 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 29 || :ref:`egress-gateway` | Stable | 30 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 31 || :ref:`gsg_encryption` (IPsec and WireGuard) | Stable | 32 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 33 || :ref:`bandwidth-manager` | Stable | 34 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 35 || :ref:`local-redirect-policy` | Stable | 36 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 37 | Cilium Mesh | Stable (:ref:`Roadmap Details<rm-clustermesh>`) | 38 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 39 || :ref:`Multi-Cluster (ClusterMesh)<clustermesh>` | Stable | 40 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 41 || :ref:`External Workloads<external_workloads>` | Beta | 42 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 43 | Hubble Observability | Stable (:ref:`Roadmap Details<rm-hubble-observability>`) | 44 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 45 || :ref:`Hubble CLI<hubble_cli>` | Stable | 46 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 47 || :ref:`hubble_ui` | Stable | 48 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 49 || :ref:`Prometheus metrics<metrics>` | Stable | 50 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 51 | Cilium Service Mesh | Stable (:ref:`Roadmap Details<rm-cilium-service-mesh>`) | 52 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 53 || :ref:`gs_ingress` | Stable | 54 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 55 || :ref:`gs_gateway_api` | Beta | 56 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 57 || :ref:`gs_l7_traffic_management` | Beta | 58 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 59 || :ref:`gs_mutual_authentication` | Beta | 60 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 61 || :ref:`SPIFFE integration<identity_management>` | Beta | 62 ++-------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 63 | `Tetragon`_ Security | Stable (:ref:`Roadmap Details<rm-tetragon>`) | 64 +--------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ 65 66 "Stable" means that the feature is in use in production (though advanced 67 features may still be in beta or in development). 68 69 Release Cadence 70 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 71 72 We aim to make 2 to 3 `point releases`_ per year of Cilium and its core components 73 (Hubble, Cilium CLI, Tetragon, etc). We also make patch releases available as 74 necessary for security or urgent fixes. 75 76 Focus Areas 77 ----------- 78 79 For a finer-granularity view, and insight into detailed enhancements and fixes, 80 please refer to `issues on GitHub <GitHub issues_>`_. 81 82 Welcoming New Contributors 83 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 84 85 As a CNCF project we want to make it easier for new contributors to get involved 86 with Cilium. This includes both code and non-code contributions such as 87 documentation, blog posts, example configurations, presentations, training 88 courses, testing and more. Check the :ref:`dev_guide` documentation to understand how to get 89 involved with code contributions, and the `Get Involved`_ guide for guidance on 90 contributing blog posts, training and other resources. 91 92 .. _rm-cilium-service-mesh: 93 94 Cilium Service Mesh 95 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 96 97 As Cilium Service Mesh gets wider adoption, the next steps in 98 this area (in no particular order) include: 99 100 * Graduating Gateway API and L7 Traffic management to stable 101 * Graduating next-gen mutual authentication and SPIFFE integration to stable 102 * Graduating Prometheus metrics and OpenTelemetry collector to stable 103 * Extended sample Grafana dashboards for L7 visibility 104 * SMI integration 105 * Performance benchmarking 106 107 .. _rm-clustermesh: 108 109 Cilium Mesh 110 ~~~~~~~~~~~ 111 112 Cilium Mesh incorporates the ability to connect any application workload to any 113 other, whether they are distributed within the same or different Kubernetes 114 clusters, or in external services or VMs in public or private clouds. This 115 builds on the core :ref:`ClusterMesh<clustermesh>` capability that is stable and 116 widely adopted. Future extensions include: 117 118 * Cluster health checks 119 * :ref:`External Workloads<external_workloads>` graduating to stable 120 121 .. _rm-advanced-networking: 122 123 Advanced Networking Features 124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 125 126 There are several advanced networking features currently in beta, several of 127 these are already in production use with a set of adopters. We expect the 128 following features to graduate to stable: 129 130 * :ref:`BGP<bgp>` 131 * :ref:`CiliumEndpointSlice<CiliumEndpointSlice>` 132 * :ref:`Multi-Pool IPAM<ipam_crd_multi_pool>` 133 * :ref:`Node-to-node WireGuard encryption<node-node-wg>` 134 135 .. _rm-hubble-observability: 136 137 Hubble Observability 138 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 139 140 Hubble provides visibility into network flows through the :ref:`Hubble CLI<hubble_cli>` (stable) 141 and :ref:`UI<hubble_ui>` (beta), with support for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. Areas of 142 focus currently include: 143 144 * Hubble UI additional features 145 146 CI Test Improvements 147 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 148 149 We have a comprehensive set of tests running in CI, but several contributors are 150 currently working on `CI improvements`_ to make these more reliable and easier to 151 maintain. This is a good area to get involved if you are interested in learning 152 more about Cilium internals and development. 153 154 .. _rm-tetragon: 155 156 Tetragon Security 157 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 158 159 `Tetragon`_ is a sub-project within the Cilium family. It provides security observability and runtime enforcement through the JSON events and the Tetragon 160 CLI for things like process execution, file access, network observability, and 161 privileged execution. 162 163 Codebase modularization 164 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 165 166 As the project is growing in complexity it is becoming increasingly important 167 to be able to divide it into more manageable chunks. To achieve this, we're 168 working on modularizing the codebase and going from a tightly coupled design 169 (one large initialization and configuration) to a more loosely coupled design 170 of mostly self-contained modules. This will make Cilium internals easier to 171 comprehend, test and extend. 172 173 Contributions in this area are very welcome. To get started, take a look at the 174 :ref:`guide-to-the-hive` documentation and the issues referenced from 175 `modularization meta issue <modularization-issue_>`_. If you have any questions 176 or ideas please join us on the ``#sig-modularization`` channel on `Cilium 177 Slack`_. 178 179 .. _rm-influence: 180 181 Influencing the Roadmap 182 ----------------------- 183 184 You are welcome to raise feature requests by creating them as `GitHub issues`_. 185 Please search the existing issues to avoid raising duplicates; if you find that 186 someone else is making the same or similar request we encourage the use of 187 GitHub emojis to express your support for an idea! 188 189 The most active way to influence the capabilities in Cilium is to get involved 190 in development. We label issues with `good-first-issue`_ to help new potential 191 contributors find issues and feature requests that are relatively self-contained 192 and could be a good place to start. Please also read the :ref:`dev_guide` for 193 details of our pull request process and expectations, along with instructions 194 for setting up your development environment. 195 196 We encourage you to discuss your ideas for significant enhancements and feature 197 requests on the ``#development`` channel on `Cilium Slack`_, bring them to the 198 :ref:`community-meeting`, and/or create a `CFP design doc`_. 199 200 This roadmap does not give date commitments since the work is dependent on the 201 community. If you're looking for commitments to apply engineering resources to 202 work on particular features, one option is to discuss this with the companies 203 who offer `commercial distributions of Cilium <enterprise_>`_ and may be able to 204 help. 205 206 Changes to this Roadmap Page 207 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 208 209 This roadmap page will be updated through documentation pull requests in the 210 usual way, but the Cilium committers_ should be consulted beforehand about 211 anything other than trivial fixes. 212 213 214 .. _committers: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cilium/cilium/main/MAINTAINERS.md 215 .. _Load Balancing: https://cilium.io/use-cases/load-balancer/ 216 .. _Tetragon: https://tetragon.cilium.io 217 .. _GitHub issues: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues 218 .. _point releases: https://cilium.io/blog/categories/release/ 219 .. _Get Involved: https://cilium.io/get-involved 220 .. _CNCF Graduation: https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/952 221 .. _CI improvements: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aarea%2FCI-improvement 222 .. _good-first-issue: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/labels/good-first-issue 223 .. _enterprise: https://cilium.io/enterprise 224 .. _CFP design doc: https://github.com/cilium/design-cfps/tree/main 225 .. _modularization-issue: https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/23425