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Version: v1.0.0

Roadmap

Available​

NiFi cluster installation​

StatusDone
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateJan 2020

Graceful NiFi Cluster Scaling​

StatusDone
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateJan 2020

Apache NiFi is a good candidate to create an operator, because everything is made to orchestrate it through REST Api calls. With this comes automation of actions such as scaling, following all required steps: https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/administration-guide.html#decommission-nodes.

Communication via SSL​

StatusDone
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateMay 2020

The operator fully automates NiFi's SSL support. The operator can provision the required secrets and certificates for you, or you can provide your own.

Dataflow lifecycle management via CRD​

StatusDone
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateAug 2020

Users & access policies management​

StatusDone
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateNovember 2020

The operator fully automates NiFi's user and access policies management.

Backlog​

Monitoring via Prometheus​

StatusTo Do
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateOct 2020

The NiFi operator exposes NiFi JMX metrics to Prometheus.

Auto scaling​

StatusTo Do
PriorityHigh
Targeted Start dateSept 2022

Enable the NiFi cluster to be scaled by HPA kubernetes feature:

  • upscale cluster (add a new Node)
  • downscale cluster (remove a Node)

Seamless Istio mesh support​

StatusTo Do
PriorityLow
Targeted Start date-
  • Operator allows to use ClusterIP services instead of Headless, which still works better in case of Service meshes.
  • To avoid too early nifi initialization, which might lead to unready sidecar container. The operator will use a small script to mitigate this behaviour. All NiFi image can be used the only one requirement is an available wget command.
  • To access a NiFi cluster which runs inside the mesh. Operator will supports creating Istio ingress gateways.