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+# 2019 Virtual Kubelet roadmap
+
+**work in progress**
+
+## Core ideals for next year
+
+1. Reduce the barrier of entry.
+2. Create a stable community.
+3. Release virtual kubelet 1.0.
+
+### Requirements and goals
+
+1. **Core.** Split out providers from the virtual kubelet core tree. Today the provider dependencies within the virtual kubelet cause more harm than good.
+2. **Interface.** Stablize the virtual kubelet interface so minimal changes to no changes will be needed in the future. 
+3. **Developer.** Reduce the barrier of entry to create with virtual kubelet.
+4. **Community.** Grow and nurture the community for virtual kubelet core. Includes compiling use-cases past the cloud providers interests. IoT use-cases will be a big focus. 
+
+### Testing
+
+1. Improve our e2e testing in virtual kubelet core.
+2. Add options & integration points to include any provider.
+3. Create a baseline for how *quickly* virtual kubelet can process requests. Test at high scale throughput. 
+4. Work with sig-architecture in Kubernetes to develop a conformance test profile for virtual kubelet. 
+
+### Use cases 
+
+1. Explore what it means to use virtual kubelet in an IoT Edge usecases and work with wg-io-edge in Kubernetes to develop a standard within virtual kubelet to enable those usecases.
+2. Create provider agnostic tools to scale into virtual kubelet.
+3. tba
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