The Path to Atlantis 1.0 🎉

[nishkrishnan]

Atlantis was initially intended to be interfaced solely through PR actions due to a number of reasons such as:

• Getting persistence for free with Github PRs.
• Getting an audit trail for free with PR search/history
• The benefits of markdown templating in comments
• Ease of project bootstrapping

However, as Atlantis is more widely adopted by the community we want to provide some direction for the project and hopefully expand the capabilities of the platform. Atlantis 1.0 is the goal we are setting for ourselves to move towards an API driven platform that's integrated with version control but NOT entirely dependent on it. This provides the building blocks for things like integrating with other services (ie. deploy pipelines), enables usage of a standard release process (ie. post-merge to default branch) and ultimately allows us to build a richer experience since we're not limited by VCS provider functionality (ie. real-time feedback and better formatting).

This is a large endeavor and we don't expect to release 1.0 until we are confidant that the platform is stable. As for how we intend to do this, we plan on tackling this incrementally through a couple projects in the short-term that will bring us closer to this vision:

• Real-time feedback/streaming of terraform outputs
• Supporting multiple entrypoints into the system (events and api)
• Decoupling VCS specific logic from the core components of the platform

What can the community do to help?
Keep this vision in mind when contributing features/bug fixes as we want to make sure we are moving forwards not backwards. In addition to that stay tuned for more technical specifics on the next steps.