Serf Project Roadmap

Serf is a young project with big ambitions. What we've built and shipped already is a solid, powerful piece of software that solves many real world problems. But we have many plans to improve and iterate on Serf to make it even better. This page outlines some of the plans we have for future versions of Serf.

Because Serf is an open source project, you as a member of the Serf community have a big say in what features and improvements you want to see in Serf. If you have ideas for Serf, please feel free to post them to our issue tracker so that we can discuss them.

Finally, note that this roadmap is not exhaustive. We may be working on features or changes that aren't listed here.

Roadmap

• More fine-grained configuration. The current release of Serf doesn't give you fine-grained control over many of the tunables of the gossip layer. A future version of Serf will allow you to modify these tunables so that Serf may work more efficiently in any environment you put it in.

• SIGHUP reloading. Alongside configuration files, Serf will respond to SIGHUP requests by reloading the configuration without disrupting cluster state.

• Event handler library. We think that there are many cases for generic event handlers. We plan on building into Serf a method of sharing and quickly "installing" event handlers so that you can more easily get Serf working with common software projects. Imagine, for example: serf plugin install haproxy to instantly get event handlers for adding and removing nodes to HAProxy.