Today, we're announcing an update we’re making to our Testkube product offering. As you know, Testkube is one of a kind Cloud-native test orchestration and execution framework, which helps users run any kind of test automation against their application.  It has gotten tremendous adoption since the project started in 2021.

Testkube is built around an agent that lives inside your cluster and orchestrates the actual scheduling and execution of your tests. Test executions get triggered through a CLI, APIs, or from a centralized Dashboard. Test results and artifacts get extracted through APIs and are visualized in the Dashboard for analysis, debugging, etc.

What's Changing?

After careful consideration, we have decided to remove the Dashboard from the open-source version of Testkube. Users who want to leverage the Dashboard can continue to do so using a free, commercial version instead. As you can imagine, this decision was not made lightly, and we understand it might raise some eyebrows.

Why This Decision?

The Dashboard is a component of the Testkube experience that is mainly used by larger organizations and our commercial users as it provides them with additional value in the areas of test troubleshooting/debugging, environment management and user Mgmt/RBAC. The dashboard provided with Open-Source is limited in many regards, and many open-source users prefer to interact with Testkube directly through the CLI or APIs. Removing support for the open-source dashboard will allow us to focus our efforts both on the core Testkube engine shared by our open-source and commercial offerings, and on ongoing improvements to the Dashboard being embraced by commercial Testkube users.

What’s Next for the Testkube Dashboard?

• The upcoming v1.17 release of Testkube Open Source will no longer include the dashboard in its installation and corresponding CLI commands to open the dashboard will be deprecated. 
• A downloadable version of Testkube Pro will be made available at the same time on the testkube.io website, which includes a free plan that provides access to the Pro Dashboard with a number of additional Pro features [read more].
• A migration path from an existing Open Source installation will be available to ensure that you won’t lose any data if opting to adopt this version of Testkube going forward.
• The Testkube Dashboard GitHub repository will still be available but annotated with an EOL announcement.

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We Remain Committed to Open Source

The insights and contributions from our community are invaluable for the evolution of Testkube, and we will continue to support and evolve Testkube Open Source core components (the agent, CLI and APIs) under the MIT license.

Stay Connected

Your trust and support mean everything to us, and we're committed to making Testkube better every day for both our commercial and Open Source users. Please reach out with your thoughts, suggestions, and feedback either in our Slack community or by emailing me directly at ole@kubeshop.io

Thank you for being a vital part of our community. Together, we'll continue to innovate and shape the future of Testing in Kubernetes.