Metal Stack Enhancement Proposals (MEPs)
This section contains proposals which address substantial modifications to metal-stack.
Every proposal has a short name which starts with MEP followed by an incremental, unique number. Proposals should be raised as pull requests in the docs repository and can be discussed in Github issues.
The list of proposals and their current state is listed in the table below.
Possible states are:
In DiscussionAcceptedDeclinedIn ProgressCompletedAborted
Once a proposal was accepted, an issue should be raised and the implementation should be done in a separate PR.
| Name | Description | State |
|---|---|---|
| MEP-1 | Distributed Control Plane Deployment | Declined |
| MEP-2 | Two Factor Authentication | Aborted |
| MEP-3 | Machine Re-Installation to preserve local data | Completed |
| MEP-4 | Multi-tenancy for the metal-api | In Progress |
| MEP-5 | Shared Networks | Completed |
| MEP-6 | DMZ Networks | Completed |
| MEP-7 | Passing environment variables to machines | Declined |
| MEP-8 | Configurable Filesystemlayout | Completed |
| MEP-9 | No Open Ports To the Data Center | Completed |
| MEP-10 | SONiC Support | Completed |
| MEP-11 | Auditing ^of metal-stack resources | Completed |
| MEP-12 | Rack Spreading | Completed |
| MEP-13 | IPv6 | Completed |
| MEP-14 | Independence from external sources | Completed |
| MEP-15 | HAL Improvements | In Discussion |
| MEP-16 | Firewall Support for Cluster API Provider | In Discussion |
| MEP-17 | Announced IP visibility | In Discussion |
| MEP-18 | Autonomous Control Plane | In Discussion |