Fission Platform Roadmap¶

Last Updated: 2025-10-16

Fission is Tamedia's unified Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that consolidates infrastructure, reduces complexity, and enables innovation through self-service developer capabilities. The platform provides standardized tooling, automated workflows, and AI-powered assistance for the complete software lifecycle.

Key Goals:

Consolidation: Move from isolated AWS accounts to shared platform infrastructure for legacy products
Standardization: Provide golden paths and templates for apps and services
Self-Service: Enable developers to deploy and operate services independently
Innovation: Leverage AI and automation to keep things running smoothly

Platform Architecture Overview¶

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Developer Interfaces                         │
│              Slack • Backstage • CLI • IDE Extensions           |└─────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
                                  │
┌─────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┐
│                     Fission Platform Layer                      │
│  Self-Service • Automation • AI Agents • Golden Paths           │
└─────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┘
                                  │
             ┌────────────────────┼──────────────────┐
             │                    │                  │
     ┌───────▼────────┐  ┌────────▼────────┐  ┌──────▼──────┐
     │   Foundation   │  │   Development   │  │  Operations │
     │                │  │                 │  │             │
     │ • AWS/EKS      │  │ • GitHub        │  │ • Datadog   │
     │ • Terraform    │  │ • ArgoCD        │  │ • PagerDuty │
     │ • Kubernetes   │  │ • Backstage     │  │ • OpenCost  │
     │ • Networking   │  │ • Templates     │  │ • Lacework  │
     └────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────┘

Component Categories¶

1. Foundation Infrastructure¶

Purpose: Core platform services and infrastructure

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
Cloud Provider	AWS	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Kubernetes	Amazon EKS	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Infrastructure as Code	Terraform	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Networking	AWS VPC	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Service Mesh	AWS VPC Lattice	📋 Proposal	DAI/SRE

Repositories:

tx-pts-dai/terraform-aws-kubernetes-platform - K8s platform modules
DND-IT/template-infra - Product infrastructure template

2. Developer Tools & CI/CD¶

Purpose: Code management, build, and deployment automation

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
Version Control	GitHub	✅ Production	All Teams
CI/CD Pipelines	GitHub Actions	✅ Production	All Teams
GitOps Deployment	ArgoCD	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Reusable Workflows	github-workflows	✅ Production	Platform Team
Helm Repository	helm-charts	✅ Production	Platform Team
Release Management	Changelog + Actions	🔄 In Progress	Platform Team

Repositories:

DND-IT/github-workflows - Reusable CI/CD workflows
DND-IT/helm-charts - Centralized Helm charts
DND-IT/fission-argocd - GitOps deployment manifests

GitOps Flow:

Code Push → GitHub Actions (Build/Test) → Container Registry
     ↓
Update Helm Chart → ArgoCD Syncs → Deploy to Kubernetes

3. Developer Experience & Portal¶

Purpose: Self-service capabilities and developer productivity

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
Documentation	MkDocs	✅ Production	Platform Team
Project Templates	CookieCutter/Copier	🔄 Q3 2025	Platform Team
Developer Portal	Backstage	📋 Proposal	Platform Team
Service Catalog	Backstage Catalog	📋 Proposal	Platform Team
Gotthard AI Agent	Slack Bot (AI)	📋 Proposal	Platform Team
Platform CLI	Custom CLI	📋 Proposal	Platform Team

Template Types:

PRD Templates - Product requirements documentation
Service Templates - Microservice scaffolding
Infrastructure Templates - Terraform modules
CI/CD Templates - GitHub Actions workflows
Post-mortem Templates - Incident reviews

Repositories:

DND-IT/fission - Platform documentation and API

4. Observability & Monitoring¶

Purpose: System visibility, metrics, logs, and alerting

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
APM & Logging	Datadog	✅ Production	All Teams
Metrics	Datadog	✅ Production	All Teams
Dashboards	Datadog Dashboards	✅ Production	All Teams
Health Checks	HealthChecks	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
External Monitoring	???	🔄 Spike	DAI/SRE

5. Incident Management & SRE¶

Purpose: Incident response, on-call, and reliability

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
Alerting	Datadog Monitors	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
On-Call Management	PagerDuty	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Incident Response	PagerDuty + Slack	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Incident Agent	AI-powered automation	📋 Q1 2026	Platform Team
Post-Mortems	Confluence	📝 Spike	All Teams

Integration Flow:

Alert → Datadog → PagerDuty → On-Call Engineer
                      ↓
                  Slack Channel
                      ↓
            Incident Agent (Future)

6. Security & Compliance¶

Purpose: Security scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
Container Security	Lacework	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Vulnerability Scanning	Lacework	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Secrets Management	AWS Secrets Manager	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Runtime Security	Lacework	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Compliance Monitoring	Lacework	✅ Production	DAI/SRE
Policy Enforcement	OPA / Kyverno	📋 Q1 2026	DAI/SRE

Security Workflow:

Code Push → Container Build → Lacework Scan → Vulnerability Report
                                   ↓
                           Block/Warn/Pass → Deploy

7. Cost Management (FinOps)¶

Purpose: Cost visibility, tracking, and optimization

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
FinOps Reporting	Custom Dashboards	✅ Production	EIS
K8s Cost Allocation	OpenCost	📋 Q1 2026	DAI/SRE
Cost Containers	OpenCost Labels	📋 Q1 2026	DAI/SRE
Workload Cost Visibility	Datadog + OpenCost	📋 Q1 2026	DAI/SRE
Optimization Tools	Lacework + OpenCost	📋 Q1 2026	DAI/SRE

Cost Visibility:

Kubernetes Resources → OpenCost → Cost Allocation by:
                                   • Team
                                   • Service
                                   • Environment
                                   • Namespace

2026 Goals:

cost reduction through consolidation (Q1)
Automated right-sizing recommendations (Q2)

8. AI & Automation Platform¶

Purpose: AI-powered platform automation and assistance

AI Infrastructure¶

Component	Technology	Status	Owner
Agent Orchestration	Kagent (K8s native)	🔄 Q2 2026	Platform Team
Agent Engine	Google ADK + LangGraph	🔄 Q2 2026	Platform Team
LLM Integration	Anthropic Claude, OpenAI	🔄 Q2 2025	Platform Team
Vector Database	PGvector	🔄 Q2 2025	Platform Team
MCP Tools	GitHub, Terraform, K8s	🔄 Q2 2025	Platform Team

Platform Agents¶

Agent	Purpose	Status	Interfaces
Onboarding Agent	Automate service onboarding	🔄 Q2 2025	Slack, Backstage
Release Agent	Coordinate releases with validation	📋 Q3 2025	Slack, ArgoCD
Incident Agent	Automated incident response	📋 Q3 2025	Slack, PagerDuty
Infrastructure Agent	Generate Terraform from NLP	📋 Q3 2025	Slack, GitHub
Documentation Agent	Keep docs synchronized	📋 Q3 2025	GitHub, Backstage
Gotthard	General platform assistance	🔄 Q2 2025	Slack

Agent Architecture:

User (Slack) → Gotthard → Routes to Agent
                                 ↓
                       Kagent Controller
                                 ↓
                       Agent Pod (ADK/LangGraph)
                                 ↓
                       Execute Tools (MCP)
                            ↓    ↓    ↓
                       GitHub  ArgoCD  K8s

MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integrations:

GitHub - Repository management
Terraform - Infrastructure documentation
Kubernetes - Cluster operations
ArgoCD - Deployment management
Datadog - Observability queries
Jira - Issue tracking
Kargo - Release promotions
OpenCost - Cost queries

Repositories:

DND-IT/fission/docs/platform/agents/ - Agent CRD definitions
DND-IT/helm-charts/kagent/ - Kagent controller chart
DND-IT/helm-charts/platform-agents/ - Agent deployment chart
DND-IT/fission-argocd/agents/ - Agent GitOps manifests

9. Developer Resource Lifecycle Management (DRLM)¶

Purpose: Self-service resource provisioning and lifecycle management

Component	Status	Description
Resource Provisioning	📋 Q3 2025	Self-service infra requests
Environment Management	🔄 Q2 2025	Dev/staging/prod environments
Ephemeral Environments	📋 Q3 2025	PR preview environments
Resource Cleanup	📋 Q3 2025	Automated resource lifecycle
Environment Parity	📋 Q3 2025	Dev/prod consistency
Dev Containers	📋 Q3 2025	Standardized local dev

Migration Timeline & Phases¶

Phase 1: Foundation ✅ Complete (Q1-Q2 2025)¶

Achievements:

Product accounts migrated to infra stacks
Standard Kubernetes Deployment patterns
VPC and networking standardized
CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
ArgoCD for GitOps

Phase 2: Migration & Integration ⚠️ In Progress (Q3-Q4 2025)¶

Current Focus:

Finalizing Product teams to Standard Kubernetes
Migrating legacy products to central Kubernetes
Template library implementation

Phase 3: 🔜 Planned (Q1-Q2 2026)¶

Goals:

Complete workload migration (100%)
Decommission legacy infrastructure
Advanced automation via AI agents
Complete self-service capabilities

Team Ownership¶

DAI Team (SRE)¶

Responsibilities:

AWS cloud infrastructure management
Terraform infrastructure as code
Kubernetes cluster operations (EKS)
Platform reliability and performance
Security and compliance
Cost optimization

Platform Team (Sudo)¶

Responsibilities:

Developer experience tools
AI agents and automation
Platform documentation
Reusable workflows and templates
Platform API and integrations
Developer onboarding and support

Product Teams¶

Responsibilities:

Application development and deployment
Service-specific configurations
Team-specific documentation
Cost awareness and optimization
Security best practices adoption

Key Principles¶

1. Self-Service First¶

Developers provision resources and deploy services without waiting for platform team

2. Golden Paths¶

Opinionated, well-tested patterns for common tasks via templates and automation

3. Security by Default¶

Built-in compliance, secure defaults, automated scanning

4. Observable Everything¶

Comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing for all services

5. Cost Conscious¶

Visibility and accountability for infrastructure costs at all levels

6. GitOps Native¶

All platform changes managed through Git with ArgoCD and Terraform

7. AI-Assisted¶

Leverage AI agents for automation, documentation, and developer assistance

Success Metrics!?¶

Migration Progress¶

Workload migration percentage
Legacy infrastructure decommissioned
Teams onboarded to platform

Platform Reliability¶

Platform uptime (target: 99.9%)
Mean time to recovery (MTTR)
Incident frequency and severity

Developer Experience¶

Onboarding time (developer to first deploy)
Self-service adoption rate
Developer satisfaction scores

Cost Efficiency¶

Infrastructure cost reduction
Cost per service/team visibility
Right-sizing implementation rate

Automation & AI¶

Agent invocation frequency
Automation success rate
Manual intervention reduction

Status Legend¶

Symbol	Status	Description
🔍	Spiking	Researching feasibility
📋	Planned	Roadmap item, not started
🔄	In Progress	Active development/deployment
⚠️	Blocked	Requires dependencies or decisions
✅	Production	Deployed and operational

Feedback & Communication¶

Slack Channels:

#TBA - General platform discussion
#it_pts_dai_monitoring: WIP Channel

This roadmap is a living document. Updates are tracked in the fission repository.