Road map
Updated March 21, 2025.
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Management components
Think of this like templates, import and workflows smashed together. Essentially components that can create and manage other components. Think "applications" that take properties, and then expand into the required infrastructure; or have deploy actions that pull from artifact repositories and then run actions across the infrastructure.
Read the blog post to learn more.
Management Functions (Generally Available)
Management functions allow a model to manage its own attributes; create, update, and delete components; and enqueue actions. In their first iteration, they’ll be used for three big use cases: importing existing cloud resources, modular templating, and management of existing components.
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about management functions.
Import (Generally Available)
This will let you connect any component to an existing resource.
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about import functionality
Discovery of existing cloud resources
Discover builds on import where you can discover all infrastructure within a cloud environment
Visual Templates (In private beta)
Visual templates will allow you to model your infrastructure and then extract that to a management function. The management function will keep all the geometry and connections between the components as well as the properties of the components. The management function will get added to a newly created asset which you can reuse on the diagram.
Read the blog post to learn more.
Enterprise Features
Custom authentication, ubiquitous access control, history, etc.
Approval Workflows via ReBAC (Generally Available)
We are laying the foundation of a relationship based access control (ReBAC) system using SpiceDB. This first iteration of work allows a workspace to have a defined set of approvers who curate the changes to the infrastructure before it is applied (and therefore, before making any changes to real infrastructure).
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about our approval workflows
Audit History (Generally Available)
We are providing the functionality that allows users of a workspace to see every change that has happened, who made them and when. The first iteration of this work will allow users to be able to have basic sorting and filtering of events.
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about audit history.
Fine-Grained Access Control (Generally Available)
We are providing the ability to attach approvers to specific sets of components, via views. This means core parts of the infrastructure can have approvers attached to them ensuring safer changes to the infrastructure.
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about fine-grained access control.
Views (Generally Available)
Views allow the creation of custom views within the workspace. Views are a semantic representation of a group of components and components can exist in multiple views. Components in a view can connect to components in another view. This enables teams to create diagrams that are specific to their application or area of specialization.
Read our announcement blog post to learn more about views.
GitHub Actions to drive SI (In private beta)
We are building the ability for a user to embed System Initiative in their CI/CD pipeline. We are building the capability to create an access token for a workspace, pass data to a component and trigger a management function and check the status of the resulting action.
Read the blog post to learn more.
Editor Integration (In private beta)
We are building a FUSE-based file system to allow for a user to mount a workspace and get access to all of the schemas and functions within their workspace. This means a user can use their local IDE to be able to author in System Initiative.
Read the blog post to learn more.
Full Coverage of the AWS Cloud Control API (Generally Available)
We have an integration with the AWS Cloud Control API, providing complete coverage of all AWS resources supported by CloudFormation. This enables our platform to create, read, update, and delete any AWS resource CloudFormation supports.
This integration eliminates manual resource modeling and automatically synchronizes with AWS's service catalog. As AWS releases new resources or updates existing ones through CloudFormation, our platform supports these changes without additional development work.
If there is something specific you want or need from these assets, or if you need support for something outside of AWS, come chat with us on Discord anytime.