Code Freeze:  Oct 28, 2020

Release:  Nov 18, 2020

Namer:  Joan Duran

The Hanoi release is anticipated to be dot release (v 1.3); with experimental V2 APIs for some services.  This release shall have no non-backward compatible changes (with 1.0,1.1 or 1.2 releases). 

Release Themes and Objectives

• Start of the implementation of the V2 API
  • Preparing EdgeX for some major new features and version 2.0 in 2021
• Support running a service on a different host than the other services.  Specifically making it easier to run a device service on a different host that the rest of Edge.   As a stretch to this goal, allow for select service high availability.
• Securing the REST communications between services (HTTPS)
• Automating performance testings
• Include a data filter between DS and Core Data (align with and share App Service filter function if possible

General

• Most important features we are currently working on (in priority order)
  • V2 API (partially deliver in Hanoi)
  • Allow device services to be distributed to alternate hosts
  • Implement a message bus between device services and application services
• Move to Go 1.15 when available in August
• Design a message bus implementation between device services and application service (stretch goal to provide implementation)
• Allow device services to be distributed to alternate hosts
• V2 API - “experimental”
  • For core, device services, application services, and SDKs V2 API minus security
  • Supporting services may remain at V1
• Stretch: explore possible collapse of core command and metadata
• Stretch: deprecate Mongo

Core and Supporting Services

• V2 API for core services
• Stretch: dropping the log service
• Establish a roadmap for the UI
• Determine if UI should be in separate repo
• UI secrets management
• UI incorporation of new rules engine

Test/QA

• EdgeX V2 API Blackbox tests (TAF)
• Stretch: User guidance on platform needs (want it badly but not under current V2 API and TAF work)
• More performance statistics

Device Service & SDKs

• Add V2 API
• Message bus (DS to appl service; design first and stretch impl)
• Protect the device from harmful commands, there should be the possibility to set a Min and Max limit (or other profile checks to protect the device).
• Data filter design between DS and Core Data
• Stretch: design bound checking (lead an ADR proposal)

Application Services and App Functions SDK

• Add V2 API
• Message bus (DS to appl service; design first and stretch impl)
• Deprecate Drools rules engine
• Design metadata about the “gateway” or host platform (identity, location, …)
• Develop a Kuiper road map; explore project's roadmap for additional requests
• Add EdgeX specific Kuiper documentation
• Address issues with binary data and Kuiper

System Management

• Service list fix - SMA errors when supporting service is not running
• Review and improve how SMA polls services
• CLI improvements

Security

• Provide “HOW-TO” guides for following in priority order:
  • SSH Tunnel (needs document and docker compose file snippets and may need some special containers for ssh/sshd or instructions for their setup)
  • Overlay network (needs document and docker compose file examples/snippets)
  • Service mesh (needs document and script on how to automate)
• An abstraction and pluggable mechanism to provide generation of secrets
• Address containers security issues
• Design secure subsystem launch/bootstrap dependencies
• Review design of Hardware Root of Trust - API with pluggable implementation
• Kong: enable CORS for API Gateway
• Kong: Secure admin port with TLS
• Design enablement of Vault PKI secret engine
• Develop process for security vetting of 3rd party components

DevOps

• Performance Optimizations
  • Jenkins Pipeline optimizations for edgex-go
  • Explore options from LF for supporting Jenkins on K8s
• Develop process for security and license vetting of 3rd party components
• Stretch: Restructuring our compose files to take advantage of compose file overrides, which removed the duplication in all our compose files.
• Stretch: code Coverage for Jenkins Global Libraries (codecov.io)
• Stretch: Snap improvements (WIP)

Miscellaneous

• Certification/Endorsement process of device services
• Next steps in Ideation/Topcoder challenge (virtual hackathon challenges)
• Exploration of how to facilitate Kubernetes with the Open Horizon sister project

Decisions, actions and notes taken from Hanoi planing meeting (April 2020)