🗺️ Runink Roadmap

Welcome to the official Runink Roadmap — our evolving guide to what we’re building, where we’re headed, and how you can get involved.

Runink is built on the belief that modern data platforms should be safe by default, composable by design, and collaborative at scale. This roadmap reflects our commitment to transparency, community-driven development, and rapid iteration.

🧩 Roadmap Themes

Theme Description
Composable Pipelines Make it easy to build, reuse, and test pipeline steps across teams and domains.
Secure & Compliant by Default Tighten RBAC, data contracts, and observability for enterprise-grade governance.
DevX & Developer Productivity Empower devs with a powerful CLI, REPL, codegen, and rapid iteration loops.
Streaming-First DataOps Advance real-time use cases with backpressure-safe, contract-aware streaming.
Interoperability & Ecosystem Play well with FDC3, CDM, OpenLineage, Kafka, Snowflake, and more.

🧭 Current Focus (Q2 2025)

These items are in active development or early testing:

  • Herd Namespace Isolation (multi-tenant namespace support)
  • Golden Test Rewrites for easier review and diffing
  • CLI REPL SQL Mode with DataFrame-to-Feature export
  • RBAC & Token Scoping Enhancements
  • Raft-backed Barn & Secrets Manager Integration
  • gRPC Streaming Orchestration
  • Pipeline Preview Mode (dry-run with metadata only)
  • Lineage UI + CLI support
  • Remote Artifact Signing & SBOM generation (SLSA-style)

🔜 Near-Term (Q3 2025)

Planned next based on user feedback and enterprise needs:

  • Live Feature File Linter & Formatter
  • REPL Session Recorder (record → replay feature building)
  • Multi-Herd Scheduling & Cost Reporting
  • Secrets Rotation + External Vault Integration
  • Contract Diff Web Viewer
  • Push-to-Registry UX from CLI
  • DLQ Visualization + Retry Tools
  • Plugin Marketplace (source/sink/step handlers)

🌅 Long-Term Vision (Late 2025+)

Our long-range goals to shape Runink into the standard platform for responsible data pipelines:

  • ⚙️ Full No-YAML Orchestration (Declarative-Only Pipelines)
  • 🧠 AI Copilot for Contract & Scenario Generation
  • 🌐 Cross-Org Data Mesh Support via Herd Federation
  • 📡 Runink Cloud (fully managed, secure, multi-tenant SaaS)
  • 🔒 Zero-Trust Data Contracts (ZK + Provenance)

🧠 Ideas We’re Exploring

These are in research/design phases — feedback welcome!

  • ✨ Feature DSL Step Suggestions in CLI
  • 🔀 Schema Merge Conflict Resolution UX
  • 📥 Native ingestion support for S3/Parquet/Arrow
  • 🔎 Full integration with OpenLineage + dbt Core
  • 🧾 GitHub Copilot integration for contract authoring

🙋‍♀️ Contribute to the Roadmap

We prioritize what the community and users need most. If there’s a feature you’d love to see:

  • Open an issue using the Feature Request template
  • Upvote existing roadmap items via 👍 reactions
  • Join upcoming roadmap discussions (Discord coming soon!)
  • PRs welcome for anything marked as help-wanted

🔄 Release Cadence

We aim for:

  • Minor releases every 4–6 weeks (feature drops, improvements)
  • Patch releases as needed (hotfixes, regressions)
  • Major milestones every ~6 months with community showcases

Track progress in CHANGELOG.md

Thanks for being part of the journey — we’re building Runink with you, not just for you. Let’s define the future of safe, modular, and explainable data platforms together.

— Team Runink 🐑