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OpenCost Roadmap

This roadmap reflects the current priorities for the OpenCost project. It is reviewed quarterly and discussed in the biweekly Working Group meetings.

Current Focus Areas

  • Cloud cost integration: Connecting cloud billing data to the demo environment, cloud cost bug fixes, and multi-account support
  • UI revamp: Major frontend overhaul via LFX mentorship — new UI released, stabilizing before next core release
  • OpenCost AI: New sub-project for airgapped private cost models (CI/CD, testing models at scale, finding smallest viable model)
  • First-class LLM cost support: Design proposal for native LLM cost tracking in OpenCost core
  • Integration test expansion: Pod restart tests, network cost tests, resolving Prometheus-less (promless) vs Prometheus-backed test discrepancies
  • Plugin ecosystem: Snowflake, GitHub, and currency conversion plugins proposed; MongoDB reference implementation for currency support
  • Helm chart signing: Cryptographic signing of Helm charts (research in progress)
  • Data persistence and export: Mounting persistence for promless mode, potential S3 export for cost data
  • Supply chain security: Achieving OpenSSF Best Practices Silver and Gold badges, cryptographically signed releases via Sigstore/cosign, SLSA build provenance, and SPDX license compliance across all source files
  • Community growth: EMEA/APAC meeting cadence, YouTube channel for meeting recordings, DigitalOcean cloud sponsorship for testing

Recent Milestones

  • New OpenCost UI released (v1.0 via LFX mentorship)
  • OpenCost AI sub-project introduced (first PR merged)
  • MCP server released in v1.118 with right-sizing recommendations
  • KubeModel 1.0 shipped (Fall 2025 LFX mentorship)
  • SBOM generation integrated across core and UI repos (SPDX + CycloneDX)
  • OpenSSF Scorecard integration
  • Community Maintainer role introduced
  • Gateway API deployed for infrastructure
  • Spot node testing enabled in integration test cluster
  • Copilot AI review bot enabled across repositories (provided by CNCF)
  • OpenCost Specification v0.1 published
  • Collector data source shipped (alternative to Prometheus)

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