Plans and versioning

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About

Currently, there are no good self-hosted softwares that I like to manage my self-hosted environment. There are tools to manage containers, tools to manage network, etc. But none of these can be setup in 2 minutes like most Cloud Providers platform do.

Vertex aims to fix this gap by doing a fully open-source software (MIT License), visually appealing, easy to use, and with a very low learning curve.

Current plans

The main goal of Vertex is to have a powerful platform (like some Cloud Providers have), but as a self-hosted service.

Vertex will first stabilize its API and apps. Then, plan to support entirely 3rd party apps, with a plugin system. Vertex architecture is already designed with this idea in mind. After that, move forward to support horizontal scaling.

Future plans are not determined yet, but a cool idea would be to export parts of Vertex as packages, to benefit the community outside of the self-hosted community.

Note

These packages will be created at least after the 1.0 release, as Vertex is still doing big changes to its codebase.

Versioning

Definition:
If the version is 1.2.3, 1=major 2=minor 3=patch.

Before Vertex 1.0

Before Vertex 1.0, major changes are pushed on each new minor releases. (e.g. Between 0.11.x and 0.12.0). This means that:

• Breaking changes can appear between two minor versions if you use the external API
• Security is not guaranteed at all, we strongly recommend to keep all Vertex ports private.
• If you want to propose a big change in the architecture of Vertex, this is the ideal time to propose it!

That being said, I use Vertex in a daily basis, running 24/24 in my production environment, which means that:

• Vertex is working perfectly in its current state
• Vertex has a migration tool to support automatic updates between the versions
• All pushed versions already have a pretty good stability.

After Vertex 1.0

After Vertex 1.0, major changes will only be done on major releases. (e.g. Between 1.x.x and 2.0.0) You'll therefore be able to use it for larger environments after this release.

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