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Kargo Roadmap

Over a series of releases, Kargo's maintainers have settled into a cadence of a minor release roughly every five weeks, with two or three major features completed per release.

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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

v1.1.0

Expected: 22 November 2024

This release will focus on improving the flexibility of the promotion steps introduced in v0.9.0 through the addition of support for an expression language.

This release also kicks off a three phase plan with the end goal of enabling custom/third-party promotion steps.

Upcoming

v1.2.0

This release is to be the second phase of three advancing Kargo toward support for custom/third-party promotion steps, with a focus on ensuring a secure and isolated execution environment for those steps.

v1.3.0

The third and final phase of the three advancing Kargo toward support for custom/third-party promotion steps will focus on:

  • Establishing a formal specification for developers wishing to implement their own promotion steps.

  • Building the mechanisms whereby operators may install and users may leverage versioned, custom/third-party promotion steps.

v1.4.0 and Beyond

  • Packaging common workflows as pre-defined, composite promotion steps.
  • TBD

Completed

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

NameTypeDescription
Promotion Stepsstrategic refactorTransitioned 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 Readinesschore
  • Prioritized stability of existing features.
  • Paid down technical debt.
  • This does not mean v0.9.0 is production-ready. It means it is several steps closer to it.

v0.8.0

NameTypeDescription
Auth via GitHub AppsfeatureSupport GitHub Apps as an authentication option for GitHub repositories.
Multiple Freight per StagefeaturePermit 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 Readinesschore
  • Prioritized stability of existing features.
  • Paid down technical debt.
  • This does not mean v0.8.0 is production-ready. It means it is several steps closer to it.

v0.7.0

NameTypeDescription
Multiple WarehousesfeatureImproved UI support for displaying Freight from multiple Warehouses.
Manual Freight CreationfeatureAdded UI feature for manual Freight creation.
ECR/GAR SupportfeatureAdded 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 PromotionspocSupport a generalized option to promote arbitrary configuration (e.g. strings, files, and directories) to other paths of a GitOps repository.
Production ReadinesschorePrioritized 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

NameTypeDescription
Project ManagementfeatureAdded user / role / permission management capabilities to the CLI and UI.
EventsfeatureKargo emits noteworthy events as Kubernetes events. Events are also viewable in the UI.
Production ReadinesschorePrioritized 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

NameTypeDescription
Warehouse Rules/FiltersfeatureIntroduced optional path-based constraints on Git repository subscriptions.
Credential StoragerefactorSimplified and streamlined format and storage of repository credentials.
Credential ManagementfeatureAdded credential management capabilities to the CLI and UI.
CLI ImprovementsrefactorOverhauled the CLI to make the tree of sub-commands more intuitive, with improved consistency in usage and documentation from command to command.
UI ImprovementsfeatureAchieved near-parity with CLI features.

v0.4.0

NameTypeDescription
Warehouse Rules/FiltersfeatureIntroduced optional tag-based constraints on Git repository subscriptions.
Project Managementfeature
  • Introduced Project CRD to simplify project initialization.
  • Removed PromotionPolicy CRD and folded its functionality directly into the Project CRD.

v0.3.0

NameTypeDescription
GitHub PR-Based PromotionfeaturePull request-based promotions are now supported on GitHub.
VerificationsfeatureStage 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 RBACfeatureSSO user identities can now be mapped to Kubernetes ServiceAccount resources using annotations.

v0.2.0

NameTypeDescription
Freight CRDfeatureFreight changed from being a property of a Stage, to being its own Freight CRD.
Warehouse CRDfeatureFreight production was decoupled from a pipeline's first Stage and now comes from a Warehouse.
Kargo Renderbreaking changeThe Bookkeeper project was rebranded as Kargo Render -- a Kargo sub-project for rendering manifests.