A scalable and accessible roadmap

Our published roadmap provides an overview of current development priorities, and an extensive breakdown of ongoing and future changes. It’s a dedicated space where various services are discussed for planning features, improvements, and product scalability.

• Web Hosting: Hosting solutions for websites and applications.
• Telecommunications Services (Telecom): IP telephony services and connectivity.
• Collaboration (Collab): Tools like Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra, professional/business emails, and Microsoft 365.
• VPS/Bare Metal Eco: Affordable hosting solutions for virtual private servers (VPS) and dedicated servers.

We’ve published this roadmap to help you stay up to date on product development, especially the ones you use, and actively contribute to improving them. Thanks to this roadmap, you can share your ideas, voice your concerns, as well as suggest essential functional changes and how they can make our products even better.

A communication tool

This space is primarily designed to encourage the sharing of ideas and opportunities for improvement. Our goal is to give our users a space where they can freely share their thoughts and suggestions, and be actively involved in improving our products and fulfilling our roadmap. Your suggestions help us understand what our users want, so we can tailor our solutions to match your needs.

Please keep in mind that this roadmap is not a support channel; it’s not meant for ticket or technical support requests. If you have any issues or need customer support, please reach out through the usual channels — the OVHcloud Control Panel, official documentation, or the OVHcloud community.

How do I take part?

Want to help us enhance our services? It’s quite straightforward! Check out our GitHub roadmap to see the exciting features we have in the works, including planned improvements, or even ideas from other community members. You can:

• Share your thoughts: we welcome any suggestions you may have for new features, or improvements that could elevate our collaborative and telecom solutions, and hosting and domain name solutions. Also, VPS and Bare Metal Eco (BM Eco) services are featured on both the current roadmap as well as the dedicated Public Cloud roadmap.
• Voting and leaving comments: get in on discussions, share your thoughts, and support ideas that matter to you.
• Track updates: stay in the loop with our live progress, ongoing deployments, and upcoming projects.

A constantly evolving approach

At OVHcloud, we believe working together is key to building products that truly serve our customers. This published roadmap gives you the peace of mind and foresight to effectively plan your projects. We’re always looking to extend the reach of our services, and we can’t do that without you.

In conclusion

Publishing our Hosting, Telecom and Collaboration roadmap shows how committed we are to making transparency and collaboration central to our approach. We’ve made this GitHub space available, so you can keep up with how we tailor and scale our services, and play an active role in enhancing them. Your input, ideas, and feedback are building blocks that help us develop products that are specially built for you. We’re shaping the future of our services with your input — your experience and expectations matter!

Join us now and make a difference in improving OVHcloud solutions! Check out our changelog and roadmap for our Cloud solutions, also on GitHub.

Public Cloud : our fastest evolving set of services

Offering Baremetal services and Web Hosting for now more than 20 years, OVH launched its Public Cloud ecosystem 5 years ago. After a focus on infrastructure (computing instances, object storage and networking capabilities), we added nearly 30 different services, from managed Kubernetes to Big Data and Machine Learning. We plan to deliver a couple more in the upcoming year (databases, filesystem , baremetal …).

Each service regularly gets new capabilities, either from opensource technologies they are based on or through OVHcloud specific added value. This translates into dozens of features and improvements every year. For example recently, we launched automated backups for your virtual machines, nodepools & anti-affinity management for Kubernetes… We also will soon enable vRack (private networking) to Kubernetes and other services…

Finally, we upgrade the different softwares to always guarantee stability and security for your services. We also expand them to all our datacenters. For example, we offer the recent releases of major Linux distributions, enabled Kubernetes 1.19 a couple of weeks ago. We also recently made this service available in our Polish, Australian and Singaporean regions.

All this makes it challenging for our customers to be always up-to-date on how they can use all the value brought by this dozens of products together. The numerous questions following our public cloud session at OVHcloud annual event confirmed this challenged needed to be adressed.

Moving forward with total #Transparency

After checking the best practices in the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS industry, we agreed on sharing a macro view of our features backlog. We found the agile roadmap format a ideal compromise between clarity and usability. We iterated with multiple customer-facing colleagues (presales teams, technical account managers…) to adjust on the format. You can now consult it as a dedicated repository on the existing OVHcloud GitHub page : https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-roadmap .

This artifact is a new proof of our “S.M.A.R.T.” cloud Transparency value. For years, our customers recognize us for sharing any planned tasks and incidents on the good old travaux.ovh.net (spoiler : this will go through a major revamp in 2021 for more clarity and usability). OVHcloud is also proud of our “1 page and no hiden fees” and totally predictable public cloud pricing scheme.

Publishing our changelog, but also allowing customers to view and participate publicly on our backlog prioritization was the logicial next step. This roadmap remains indicative (and we may surprise you with additionnal strategic features that we choose to keep confidential). We will also share more precise E.T.A. in specific item, as soon as we are confident enough to do so.

How to consult and contribute

Anyone can consult the board of his choice on https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-roadmap/projects . You will find out the current features planned in the backlog and some details on how to use those improvments.

After loging in with a free GitHub account, one can subscribe to a given feature to get email notifications when it is modified or moves forward. Loged-in users can also comment or vote for listed features to influence our specifications and prioritization.

Finally, a user can suggest a new issue to the backlog . We will consider new issues within a week and, and they may enter one of the board’s Backlog if they align with our product strategy. We regularly commit to new items on the backlog. “Committed/Being developped” column means that the feature has been sized and is planned for the next 3 to 12 months. When these elements approach production, they are moved to “Coming soon“. At that stage, specifications are final, and the feature will hit GA usually in less than 2 months, some times we will details how you can get early access before general availability.

Help us by challenging the content and our priorities !

Do you feel a specific Item is unclear ? Underprioritized ? Feel free to upvote it or comment and raise questions! As in any Agile approach, your feedback will make this grow and bring back more value to all our users.