Development Roadmap

This document outlines the future development plans and roadmap for ContainerPub.

Current Status

Version: Pre-release (Development)

Completed Features

• CLI Tool - dart_cloud_cli with deploy, list, invoke, delete commands
• Backend Server - dart_cloud_backend with REST API
• Admin Backend - admin_backend_api with Keycloak OIDC auth
• Authentication - Dual-token JWT system (platform) + Keycloak OIDC (admin)
• Function Deployment - Archive upload and container building
• Function Execution - Isolated container execution with Podman
• Function Versioning - Deployment history, rollback, pagination
• Code Analysis - Static analysis and security validation
• Main Injection - Automatic main.dart generation
• Token Service - Encrypted Hive storage with whitelist approach
• User Management - Soft-delete, status management, temporary passwords
• Organizations & Tiers - Org CRUD, membership, tier assignment
• Feature Roles - Granular role-based access via Keycloak
• Early Access Admin - Request review, approval, capacity management
• Documentation Site - Jaspr-based docs with jaspr_content

Phase 1: Core Stability (Current)

Priority: High

Analyzer Fix Details

The CLI analyzer currently only checks main.dart, but FunctionMainInjection scans all .dart files. Need to:

• Update analyzer to scan all .dart files in function directory
• Find @cloudFunction annotated class anywhere in project
• Validate it exists and is unique
• Allow deployment regardless of file location

Phase 2: Developer Experience

Priority: High

Local Testing Details

# Run function locally without deployment
dart_cloud test ./my-function --data '{"key": "value"}'

# Watch mode for development
dart_cloud test ./my-function --watch

Phase 3: Platform Features

Priority: Medium

Environment Variables

# Set environment variables for a function
dart_cloud env set <function-id> DATABASE_URL=postgres://...
dart_cloud env list <function-id>
dart_cloud env delete <function-id> DATABASE_URL

Scheduled Functions

# function.yaml
schedule:
  cron: "0 * * * *" # Every hour
  timezone: "UTC"

Phase 4: Scaling & Performance

Priority: Medium

Cold Start Optimization

• Pre-build base images with common dependencies
• Container pool with warm instances
• Lazy loading for rarely-used functions
• Image layer caching

Phase 5: Enterprise Features

Priority: Low

Phase 6: Ecosystem

Priority: Low

Technical Debt

Release Schedule

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Priority areas:

• Bug fixes - Help us squash bugs
• Documentation - Improve docs and examples
• Testing - Add test coverage
• Features - Implement planned features

Feedback

Have ideas or suggestions? Open an issue on GitHub:

• Feature Requests
• Bug Reports
• Questions