Deis Blog Deis Workflow Final Release

Deis Workflow v2.18 will arrive in September 2017 as the last official monthly release. After that, maintainers will accept critical fixes only for six months. For more detail on the end-of-life plan for Deis Workflow, please read the timeline and watch the video of the August community meeting. Timeline 08/08/2017 Deis Workflow v2.17 09/07/2017 Deis Workflow v2.18 final release before entering maintenance mode 03/01/2018 End of Workflow maintenance: critical patches no longer merged History of Workflow Engine Yard released the first alpha version of Deis Workflow on December 30, 2015. After several months of community testing and feedback, v2.0.0 was unleashed on June 9, 2016. "Deis" was already a popular open source PaaS, based on CoreOS and fleet, and Workflow worked just the same, but ran on this Kubernetes thing everyone was starting to talk about... Neither Kubernetes nor Workflow were easy to install at first, but that got better (thanks in part to Helm, the Kubernetes package manager we started at about the same time). A growing number of users started typing deis create. And many of those users helped each other out with Workflow and Kubernetes questions in the Slack channel we made. This community found the bugs and contributed the code...lots of awesome code! Together with the dedicated Engine Yard maintainers, we released a new, backward-compatible Workflow version every month like clockwork. The Future As Workflow became a mature product over seventeen releases (so far), the team began working harder on Helm, on Service Catalog machinery, and on Kubernetes itself. Microsoft demonstrated how serious it is about Kubernetes by acquiring the Deis team from Engine Yard in early 2017. (And if you like things like Linux, go, and containers: we are hiring!) The former Deis / Engine Yard engineers are now part of the Azure Container Services team. We are putting containers first by improving Kubernetes in Azure and focusing on new Kubernetes-native open source tools. New Tools In addition to the Kubernetes projects already mentioned, there was one "skunkworks" project that we couldn't wait to see the light of day: Draft. Draft distills the core ideas of Workflow into the simplest possible way to deploy your app code directly into Kubernetes. It's also Helm-compatible, for when your idea moves into production. Join us at the Draft project and help build the future of app development on Kubernetes! The Microsoft Azure team plans to build other open source pieces that fill in the gaps around Draft and Helm. We want to ensure that each tool adheres to the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing well." Another fresh idea, Azure Container Instances, is a perfect example of the kind of future-facing, container-oriented technology we're focused on at Microsoft. If your app runs in a container, you can launch it directly into the cloud in just seconds with ACI. You Are All Workflowers Deis Workflow was and is a team and community effort. Nearly everyone who worked at Deis, Inc. or latter-day Engine Yard worked on Workflow. Most of the user community contributed back in some way, by reporting bugs, by helping other users, or by contributing fixes and features in code. You did this. You helped. You made this. We can't thank you enough. Long live the Workflow forks! Crewmembers Vaughn Dice, Matt Fisher, and Matt Boersma would like to extend a salute. Well done, all of us.