Design Principles

Epinio's development is governed by the following principles:

• Greater Developer Experience
  • Single command push for short learning curve
• Edge Friendly
  • Has to fit in less than 4GB of RAM
• Easy Installation
  • Has to install in less than 5 minutes when images are warm
  • Has to completely uninstall and leave the cluster in its previous state with an one-line command
• Minimum Complexity
  • Scale from desktop/local to data center environment
  • Has to install with an one-line command and zero config
• API Driven Architecture
• Security Focused

Guidelines (Soft Principles)

• When possible, prefer:
  • components that are written in go
  • Kubernetes primitives over custom resources
  • Well known components with active community over custom code
• all acceptance tests should run in less than 10 minutes
• all tests should be able to run on the minimal cluster