ROADMAP.md

Four Keys 2022 Roadmap

Mission and Vision

Four Keys mission:

Be the industry-standard reference implementation for the automated calculation of the DORA Four Key metrics.

The vision for this is:

• All discussion of the DORA Four Key metrics center around the key data entities of Changes, Deployments, and Incidents
• Clear guidelines on how to instrument your systems to gain continuous insights and drive continuous improvement
• A rich set of tool integrations and data mappings
• Support for common deployment patterns

Non-goals:

• The DORA research includes predictive analytics, recommendations, and improvement strategies. The Four Keys dashboard will not provide these resources. It will simply be a reflection of an organization’s software delivery performance.
• Four Keys does not intend to be a one-stop shop for all operational performance metrics. The focus of this project should always be on the predictive metrics identified by the DORA research.

Roadmap

• Short Term
  • Enriching the dashboard
    • More data points
    • New data views for drilling down into the metrics
  • More native Terraform installation
    • Currently, the setup is a mix of gcloud commands and Terraform configuration. We will move away from gcloud commands and rely more on the declarative Terraform setup.
• Long Term
  • CloudEvents migration
    • Migrate the four_keys.events_raw schema to CloudEvents schema
    • Use the CloudEvents adapters to do the ETL rather than the current workers
  • New Integrations
    • CI/CD Tools
      • Jenkins
      • Teamcity
      • Spinnaker
      • GitHub Actions
    • Bugs / Incident Management
      • Jira
      • ServiceNow
      • PagerDuty
      • Google Forms
    • Version Control System
      • Bitbucket
      • GitHub Enterprise
      • Gitea
  • Custom deployment events
    • Support for different deployment patterns, eg multiple change sets in a single deployment
    • Canary and Blue/Green deployments