Roadmap

This document defines a high level roadmap for KubeEdge development.

The milestones defined in GitHub represent the most up-to-date plans.

The roadmap below outlines new features that will be added to KubeEdge.

2021 H1

Core framework

Edge side list-watch

  • Support list-watch interface at edge

Custom message transmission between cloud and edge

  • Support transmission of custom message between cloud and edge

Support multi-instance cloudcore

Integration and verification of third-party CNI

  • Flannel, Calico, etc.

Integration and verification of third-party CSI

  • Rook, OpenEBS, etc.

Support managing clusters at edge from cloud (aka. EdgeSite)

Support ingress/gateway at edge.

Maintainability

Deployment optimization

  • Easier deployment
  • Admission controller automated deployment

Automatic configuration of edge application offline migration time

  • Modify Default tolerationSeconds Automatically

IOT Device management

Device Mapper framework standard and framework generator

  • Formulate mapper framework standard

Support mappers of more protocols

  • OPC-UA mapper
  • ONVIF mapper

Security

Complete security vulnerability scanning

Test

Improve the performance and e2e tests with more metrics and scenarios.

Edge-cloud synergy AI

Supports KubeFlow/ONNX/Pytorch/Mindspore

Edge-cloud synergy training and inference

MEC

Cross-edge cloud service discovery

5G network capability exposure

2021 H2

Core framework

Custom message transmission between cloud and edge

  • Support CloudEvent protocol

Cross subnet communication of Data plane

  • Edge-edge cross subnet
  • Edge-cloud cross subnet

Unified Service Mesh support (Integrate with Istio/OSM etc.)

Cloud-edge synergy monitoring

  • Provide support with prometheus push-gateway mode
  • Data management with support for ingestion of telemetry data and analytics at the edge.

IOT Device management

Device Mapper framework standard and framework generator

  • Develop mapper framework generator

Support mappers of more protocols

  • GB/T 28181 mapper

Edge-cloud synergy AI

Intelligent edge benchmark

MEC

Cloud-network convergence

Service catalog

Cross-edge cloud application roaming