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# minikube roadmap (2019)
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This roadmap is a living document outlining the major technical improvements which we would like to see in minikube during 2019, divided by how they apply to our [guiding principles ](principles.md )
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Please send a PR to suggest any improvements to it.
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## (#1) User-friendly and accessible
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- [ ] Creation of a user-centric minikube website for installation & documentation
- [ ] Localized output to 5+ written languages
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- [x] Make minikube usable in environments with challenging connectivity requirements
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- [ ] Support lightweight deployment methods for environments where VM's are impractical
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- [x] Add offline support
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## (#2) Inclusive and community-driven
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- [x] Increase community involvement in planning and decision making
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- [ ] Make the continuous integration and release infrastructure publicly available
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- [x] Double the number of active maintainers
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## (#3) Cross-platform
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- [ ] Simplified installation process across all supported platforms
- [ ] Users should never need to separately install supporting binaries
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## (#4) Support all Kubernetes features
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- [ ] Add multi-node support
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## (#5) High-fidelity
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- [ ] Reduce guest VM overhead by 50%
- [x] Disable swap in the guest VM
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## (#6) Compatible with all supported Kubernetes releases
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- [x] Continuous Integration testing across all supported Kubernetes releases
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- [ ] Automatic PR generation for updating the default Kubernetes release minikube uses
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## (#7) Support for all Kubernetes-friendly container runtimes
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- [x] Run all integration tests across all supported container runtimes
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- [ ] Support for Kata Containers (help wanted!)
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## (#8) Stable and easy to debug
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- [x] Pre-flight error checks for common connectivity and configuration errors
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- [ ] Improve the `minikube status` command so that it can diagnose common issues
- [ ] Mark all features not covered by continuous integration as `experimental`
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- [x] Stabilize and improve profiles support (AKA multi-cluster)
