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James Westby f2716df828 Add a roadmap for the project 
This is based on discussions with a lot of people about
what they would like to see from the project and what fits
with the vision on the project.

There's no timeline at this point as different people may
contribute to different themes, so it's hard to make definite
plans.

Signed-off-by: James Westby <james.westby@jetstack.io>
2020-10-21 15:57:53 +01:00

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Roadmap

These are the themes that we plan to work on for cert-manager. If you wish to discuss these topics you can find us in #cert-manager on Kubernetes Slack, or at our community meetings.

The roadmap items are categorized in to themes based on the larger goals we want to achieve with cert-manager.

While this is a summary of the direction we want to go, we welcome all PRs, even if they don't fall under any of the roadmap items.

  • Beyond Ingress: improve experience of cert-manager for applications beyond just ingress certificates
    • Service Mesh Integration: Enable service meshes to issue mTLS certificates with cert-manager, getting the integration with external issuers and the audit capabilities of cert-manager in their mesh
    • Istio agent certificates issued via cert-manager
    • CSI driver: seamlessly deliver unique certs + keys to workloads. Review the prototype that we have for this and do a proper release.
  • Adoption of upstream APIs: continue to support latest APIs for k8s upstream
    • k8s APIs: keep up to date with Kubernetes API changes and releases
    • CSR API: support CSR API as a standard for certificate requests in kubernetes
  • Policy: allowing granular control over certificate issuance
    • Extensible primitives within cert-manager for defining policy for acceptable CertificateRequests
  • Extensibility: widen the scope of integrations with cert-manager
    • EST support: support a standard for ACME-like issuance within an enterprise
    • External DNS plugin: enable ACME DNS01 requests to be completed using external-dns
    • OpenShift Routes support: provide similar capabilities to Ingress for issuing certs
    • Improve external issuer development experience: documentation and examples for people developing external issuers
  • PKI lifecycle: enable best-practice PKI management with cert-manager
    • Handle CA cert being renewed: deal with the cases where the CA cert is renewed and allow for all signed certs to be renewed
    • Trust root distribution: handle distributing all trust roots within a cluster, allowing for certs to be verified within a cluster
  • Improve developer and operator experience: better user experience for installation, operation and use with applications
    • Easier installation of cert-manager: improve the installation experience through docs and in other ways * Tooling to install and upgrade cert-manager (improved operators? CLI tool?) * Tooling to verify an installation is correct/secure
    • Easier diagnosis of problems: improve the cert-manager output to make the status clearer, and provide tools to aid debugging
    • Improve the new contributor experience