openCenter Roadmap

What we are shipping, what is next, and what is coming. No vaporware. No "strategic vision" slides.

Now - In Progress

Next - Upcoming

Later - Planned

Q1'2026

Q2'2026

Q3'2026

openCenter Platform

Air Gap Deployment

100%

Full deployment and operations in fully disconnected environments. Supports offline installation with pre-packaged artifacts, private registry synchronization, and repeatable deployment for secure data centers, regulated sites, and edge locations.

Security Foundation (GA)

100%

General Availability of security foundation including Keycloak identity management, Kyverno policy enforcement, RBAC Manager, SOPS secrets encryption, cert-manager TLS lifecycle, and Harbor supply-chain security with vulnerability scanning.

Observability (GA)

100%

End-to-end observability with kube-prometheus-stack (metrics/alerting), Loki (log aggregation), Tempo (distributed tracing), and OpenTelemetry Kube Stack. GitOps-native deployment with standardized RED/USE metrics, structured logs, and actionable alerts.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes 1.34

100%

Dynamic Resource Allocation (GA), Pod-Level Resources (Beta), VolumeAttributesClass (GA), Recovery from Volume Expansion Failure (GA), ServiceAccount Token Integration for Image Pulls (Beta), and Pod Replacement Policy for Jobs (GA).

Data Services

Managed Kafka Service - LA

50%

Kafka deployment and lifecycle management through Strimzi with GitOps-driven configuration. Integration with openCenter platform for security, policy, and observability. Early customer access for validated deployment patterns.

Networking

kube-ovn CNI

75%

Non-primary CNI mode improvements, VPC NAT Gateway enhancements, underlay and provider-network updates, policy and security controls, performance and scale improvements. Upgrades to OVS 3.5 and OVN 25.03 with cert-manager support.

openCenter Platform

Air Gap Deployment (GA)

Production-ready stability with GA supportability for enterprise adoption in fully disconnected environments. Enables adoption in high-security and regulated environments where internet connectivity is restricted or prohibited.

openCenter Platform

Release 2026.03

Kubernetes 1.36 planned support, data services maturity improvements, observability enhancements across metrics/logs/tracing, and security updates strengthening policy enforcement, hardening defaults, and secrets handling.

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