Portal:Cloud VPS/Roadmap
Like all software, Cloud VPS is a work in progress. Here is an outline of near- and long-term improvements planned for the platform.
Done, as of 2024-01-01
- OpenStack APIs moved to TLS and opened up for public access
- Clarify best practices for security and privacy within cloud projects
- Move to project-local NFS servers
- Object storage (via radosgw and Swift APIs)
- S3 API support for object storage
- Basic terraform/opentofu support
- Basic kubernetes as a service support (via cli/opentofu only)
Near future (AKA things we have already started on)
- Cross-site policy and enforcement for hosted services
- Improved Trove stability and support
- Improved postgres integration (requires upstream fixes)
- Snapshot and backup support (requires Swift)
- Support for larger volume sizes (requires upstream fixes)
- Support unmanaged VMs (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326818)
- VMs that act more like standard OpenStack servers, for power users
- No puppet or cumin management
- No ldap integration
- Kubernetes as a service (openstack Magnum) improvements
Possible future features (AKA things we would like to work on someday)
- Better secrets management
- Self-service backups
- IPv6
- Separate Per-tenant networking
- Load balancing as a service