Portal:Cloud VPS/Roadmap

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Like all software, Cloud VPS is a work in progress. Here is an outline of near- and long-term improvements planned for the platform.

Done, as of 2024-01-01

OpenStack APIs moved to TLS and opened up for public access
Clarify best practices for security and privacy within cloud projects
Move to project-local NFS servers
Object storage (via radosgw and Swift APIs)
S3 API support for object storage
Basic terraform/opentofu support
Basic kubernetes as a service support (via cli/opentofu only)

Near future (AKA things we have already started on)

Cross-site policy and enforcement for hosted services
Improved Trove stability and support
- Improved postgres integration (requires upstream fixes)
- Snapshot and backup support (requires Swift)
- Support for larger volume sizes (requires upstream fixes)
Support unmanaged VMs (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326818)
- VMs that act more like standard OpenStack servers, for power users
- No puppet or cumin management
- No ldap integration
Kubernetes as a service (openstack Magnum) improvements

Possible future features (AKA things we would like to work on someday)

Better secrets management
Self-service backups
IPv6
Separate Per-tenant networking
Load balancing as a service