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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