This document defines a high level roadmap for rkt development. The dates below should not be considered authoritative, but rather indicative of the projected timeline of the project. The milestones defined in GitHub represent the most up-to-date state of affairs.
rkt is an implementation of the App Container spec, which is still under active development on an approximately similar timeframe.
The version of the spec that rkt implements can be seen in the output of rkt version.
Note that until communicated otherwise, the rkt CLI and API are considered unstable and subject to change. Backwards-compatibility is a priority for the v1.0.0 release.
- Go 1.5 support #1521
- stage1 benchmarking #1788
- more advanced stage1 image configuration #1425
- per-user credentials configuration #1568
- attach to the app's stdin/stdout #1799
- different shared namespace execution modes #1433
rkt fly, suitable for running Kubelet
- stable CLI interface
- stable read-only API interface
- stable on-disk format (all upgrades should be backwards-compatible)
- fully integrated with
machinectl loginandsystemd-run#1463 - packaged for more distributions
- rkt can run applications as non-root #820
- IPv6 support appc/cni#31