Roadmap

This is a provisional roadmap for what we'd like to do in the coming releases.

Split the ignite CLI into a client-server model (using e.g. gRPC)
- The CLI should only be a thin wrapper that talks to ignited
- With this ignite can be run without root
- ignited will be run with root privileges, or in a container with capabilities specifically set
Provide deb/rpm packages for an easier installation
Add Virtual Kubelet support to ignited
- ignited will register as a Virtual Kubelet in the target Kubernetes cluster
- The VM API type will be register as a CustomResourceDefinition
Use device-mapper Thin Provisioning for layering image -> kernel -> resize -> writable overlay
- We might be able to utilize/vendor in containerd's devicemapper snapshotter
Define what's in and out of scope for Ignite clearly, e.g.
- Supporting to restart VMs or not
- Supporting multiple network interfaces or not
- Create one architecture diagram more and a design document
Parallelized internal architecture for better performance
Generate OpenAPI documentation and specifications
Add support for CSI volumes

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