minikube/docs/contributors/roadmap.md

minikube roadmap (2019)

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

Please send a PR to suggest any improvements to it.

(#1) User-friendly and accessible

• Creation of a user-centric minikube website for installation & documentation
• Localized output to 5+ written languages
• Make minikube usable in environments with challenging connectivity requirements
• Support lightweight deployment methods for environments where VM's are impractical
• Add offline support

(#2) Inclusive and community-driven

• Increase community involvement in planning and decision making
• Make the continuous integration and release infrastructure publicly available
• Double the number of active maintainers

(#3) Cross-platform

• Simplified installation process across all supported platforms
• Users should never need to separately install supporting binaries

(#4) Support all Kubernetes features

• Add multi-node support

(#5) High-fidelity

• Reduce guest VM overhead by 50%
• Disable swap in the guest VM

(#6) Compatible with all supported Kubernetes releases

• Continuous Integration testing across all supported Kubernetes releases
• Automatic PR generation for updating the default Kubernetes release minikube uses

(#7) Support for all Kubernetes-friendly container runtimes

• Run all integration tests across all supported container runtimes
• Support for Kata Containers (help wanted!)

(#8) Stable and easy to debug

• Pre-flight error checks for common connectivity and configuration errors
• Improve the minikube status command so that it can diagnose common issues
• Mark all features not covered by continuous integration as experimental
• Stabilize and improve profiles support (AKA multi-cluster)