Documentation

Proposals ¶

This directory contains proposal documents for significant enhancements and changes to Kubeapps.

Disclaimer: Proposals are point-in-time designs and decisions. Once approved and implemented, they become historical documents. If you are reading an old proposal, please be aware that the features described herein might have continued to evolve since.

Proposal Process ¶

The proposal process is defined in proposals.md .

List of proposals ¶

Title	Author	Overview	Other resources	Approval date	Issue/PR
AuthN/AuthZ in Kubeapps	`@prydonius`	authentication-and-authorization.md	-	Apr 09, 2018	#218
Dashboard Error Handling	`@migmartri`	error-handling.md	-	Oct 17, 2018	#738
Improving User Experience for Deploying and Upgrading Applications	`@andresmgot`	deployment-improvements.md	-	Sep 26, 2019	#1152
Third party integration for adding a chart repository	`@absoludity`	third-party-add-repository.md	-	Oct 14, 2019	#1213
Helm 3 support	`@simonalling`	helm3.md	-	Nov 4, 2019	#1250
Replacing MongoDB support	`@andresmgot`	replacing-mongodb.md	-	Dec 3, 2019	#1313
Improve UX in application view	`@andresmgot`	application-view-revamp.md	-	Mar 3, 2020	#1529
Operators support	`@andresmgot`	operators-support-poc.md	-	Mar 5, 2020	#1553
Update Kubeapps to use clarity.design	`@andresmgot`	clarity-ui.md	Design in GDoc	May 14, 2020	#1354
Multicluster support	`@absoludity`	multi-cluster-support.md	-	Jun 9, 2020	#1746
Kubeapps with Pinniped for Auth on clusters without OIDC configuration	`@absoludity`	Investigate and discuss integration with the pinniped project enabling Kubeapps to run with SSO authentication on platforms where we have no control over the K8s API server configuration.	Design in GDoc	Oct 22, 2020	#2119
Evaluating OCI registries for Kubeapps	`@andresmgot`	Evaluate what’s needed to support OCI registries in Kubeapps to host Helm charts	Design in GDoc	Oct 26, 2020	#2127
Kubeapps Catalog UI/UX proposal	`@antgamdia`	Evaluate the improvement of the UI/UX when listing the catalog of charts/operators (apps henceforth) from different repositories when they include a large number of elements.	Design in GDoc	Dec 9, 2020	#1010
Design pluggable support	`@gfichtenholt`	Design specification of the pluggable architecture and support for multiple package formats	Design in GDoc	Jun 1, 2021	#2944
Customizable UI for plugins	`@castelblanque`	Design proposal for the customization of UI only from backend, in order to ease the burden of maintaining UI hardcoded cases per plugin.	Design in GDoc	Jul 12, 2022	#4365
New multicluster design	`@castelblanque`	A new design for extending multicluster support to all package plugins.	Design in GDoc	Oct 24, 2022	#5152
Operators Packaging Plugin	`@gfichtenholt`	Initial thoughts on new Operators Packaging Plugin	Design in GDoc	Dec 20, 2022	#4920
Kubeapps OCI Catalog	`@absoludity`	Ensuring Kubeapps can remain a Catalog in the OCI world	Design in GDoc	May 17, 2023	#6179