Roadmap

• Support metrics-server in the cloud.
• Support Kubernetes exec API for edge application.
• Upgrade Kubernetes dependency to 1.18.
• Support edgenode certificate rotation.
• Upgrade golang to 1.14.
• Support ingress/gateway at edge.
• Edge nodes cross subnet communication.
• Support list-watch from edgecore for applications on the edge.
• Collect data information sent from the edge side from CloudHub
• Improve KubeEdge installation experience
• Add more docs and move docs out of main repo

Future

• Improve contributor experience by defining project governance policies, release process, membership rules etc.
• Improve the performance and e2e tests with more metrics and scenarios.
• Add protobuf support for data exchange format between cloud and edge
• Support managing clusters at edge from cloud (aka. EdgeSite)
• Enhance performance and reliability of KubeEdge infrastructure.
• Support edge-cloud communication using edgemesh.
• Istio-based service mesh across Edge and Cloud where micro-services can communicate freely in the mesh.
• Enable function as a service at the Edge.
• Evaluate and enable much larger scale Edge clusters with thousands of Edge nodes and millions of devices.
• Enable intelligent scheduling of applications to large scale Edge clusters.
• Data management with support for ingestion of telemetry data and analytics at the edge.
• Evaluate gRPC for cloud to edge communication.