Kargo Roadmap
Over a series of releases, Kargo's maintainers have settled into a cadence of a minor release roughly every six weeks, with two or three major features completed per release, although this varies slightly by scope.
This roadmap tracks only major features and is subject to change at any time, for the most up-to-date information, please see the GitHub Project
In Progress
v1.3.0
Expected: TBD
v1.3.0 will focus on isolating user-defined promotion processes (or possibly individual steps thereof) in their own ephemeral execution environments. This is intended to pave the way for eventual support for custom/third-party promotion steps.
Upcoming
v1.4.0 and Beyond
Expected: TBD
v1.4.0 will leverage the improved isolation of user-defined promotion processes to begin supporting custom/third-party promotion steps. This work will include establishing a formal specification for developers wishing to implement their own promotion steps, as well as building the mechanisms whereby operators may install and users may leverage such promotion steps.
Completed
v1.2.0
This release focused on three large features: The ability to define reusable
sequences of promotion steps via PromotionTask or ClusterPromotionTask
resources, "soak times" (time criteria for a Promotion), and management of
generic Project Secrets.
v1.1.0
This release dramatically improved the flexibility of the promotion steps introduced in v0.9.0 through the addition of support for an expression language.
v1.0.0
v1.0.0 was our long-anticipated GA release containing only small features, bug fixes, stability improvements, and the final removal of the legacy promotion mechanisms that were deprecated in v0.9.0.
v0.9.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Promotion Steps | strategic refactor | Transitioned from opinionated promotion mechanisms to an ordered lists of more finely-grained promotion directives steps reminiscent of GitHub Actions. These enable greater flexibility in addressing outlying use cases and have left us with a clear path forward for to eventually enable third-party integrations. |
| Production Readiness | chore |
|
v0.8.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Auth via GitHub Apps | feature | Support GitHub Apps as an authentication option for GitHub repositories. |
Multiple Freight per Stage | feature | Permit Stages to host multiple pieces of Freight from different Warehouses. Different artifacts, or sets of artifacts, can be promoted through parallel pipelines with different/independent cadence. |
| Production Readiness | chore |
|
v0.7.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Multiple Warehouses | feature | Improved UI support for displaying Freight from multiple Warehouses. |
Manual Freight Creation | feature | Added UI feature for manual Freight creation. |
| ECR/GAR Support | feature | Added multiple options for authenticating to image repositories in ECR and Google Artifact Registry, including support for EKS Pod Identity and GKE Workload Identity Federation. |
| Patch Promotions | poc | Support a generalized option to promote arbitrary configuration (e.g. strings, files, and directories) to other paths of a GitOps repository. |
| Production Readiness | chore | Prioritized stability of existing features. This does not mean v0.7.0 is production-ready. It means it is several steps closer to it. |
v0.6.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Project Management | feature | Added user / role / permission management capabilities to the CLI and UI. |
| Events | feature | Kargo emits noteworthy events as Kubernetes events. Events are also viewable in the UI. |
| Production Readiness | chore | Prioritized stability of existing features. This does not mean v0.6.0 is production-ready. It means it is several steps closer to it. |
v0.5.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Warehouse Rules/Filters | feature | Introduced optional path-based constraints on Git repository subscriptions. |
| Credential Storage | refactor | Simplified and streamlined format and storage of repository credentials. |
| Credential Management | feature | Added credential management capabilities to the CLI and UI. |
| CLI Improvements | refactor | Overhauled the CLI to make the tree of sub-commands more intuitive, with improved consistency in usage and documentation from command to command. |
| UI Improvements | feature | Achieved near-parity with CLI features. |
v0.4.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Warehouse Rules/Filters | feature | Introduced optional tag-based constraints on Git repository subscriptions. |
| Project Management | feature |
|
v0.3.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub PR-Based Promotion | feature | Pull request-based promotions are now supported on GitHub. |
| Verifications | feature | Stage resources can now execute a user-defined verification process after a promotion. These can be defined using Argo Rollouts AnalysisTemplate resources, and executions take the form of AnalysisRun resources. |
| Improved RBAC | feature | SSO user identities can now be mapped to Kubernetes ServiceAccount resources using annotations. |
v0.2.0
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Freight CRD | feature | Freight changed from being a property of a Stage, to being its own Freight CRD. |
Warehouse CRD | feature | Freight production was decoupled from a pipeline's first Stage and now comes from a Warehouse. |
| Kargo Render | breaking change | The Bookkeeper project was rebranded as Kargo Render -- a Kargo sub-project for rendering manifests. |