The Architecture SIG maintains and evolves the design principles of Kubernetes, and provides a consistent body of expertise necessary to ensure architectural consistency over time.
The charter defines the scope and governance of the Architecture Special Interest Group.
Joining the mailing list for the group will typically add invites for the following meetings to your calendar.
- Enhancements Subproject Meeting: Thursdays at 10:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
- Production Readiness Office Hours: Wednesdays at 12:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
- Regular SIG Meeting: Thursdays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
- code organization Office Hours: Thursdays at 14:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
- conformance office Hours: Wednesdays at 18:00 UTC (First Wednesday of the month). Convert to your timezone.
The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.
- Derek Carr (@derekwaynecarr), Red Hat
- Davanum Srinivas (@dims), Amazon
- John Belamaric (@johnbelamaric), Google
- Slack: #sig-architecture
- Mailing list
- Open Community Issues/PRs
- GitHub Teams:
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-api-reviews - API Changes and Reviews
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-bugs - Bug Triage and Troubleshooting
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-feature-requests - Feature Requests
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-misc-use-only-as-a-last-resort - General Discussion
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-pr-reviews - PR Reviews
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-proposals - Design Proposals
- @kubernetes/sig-architecture-test-failures - Test Failures and Triage
- Steering Committee Liaison: Benjamin Elder (@BenTheElder)
The following working groups are sponsored by sig-architecture:
The following subprojects are owned by sig-architecture:
Snooping on the Kubernetes OpenAPI communications
- Owners:
- Owners:
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #k8s-code-organization
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #k8s-conformance
- GitHub Teams:
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #enhancements
- Owners:
- Contact:
- Slack: #prod-readiness
Establishing and documenting design principles, documenting and evolving the system architecture, reviewing, curating, and documenting new extension patterns
Establishing and documenting conventions for system and user-facing APIs, define and operate the APl review process, final API implementation consistency validation, co-own top-level API directories with API machinery; maintaining, evolving, and enforcing the deprecation policy
- Kubernetes Design and Architecture
- Design principles
- API conventions
- API Review process
- Deprecation policy
Please see the API Reviews tracking board to follow the work of this sub-project. Please reach out to folks in the OWNERS file if you are interested in joining this effort.
Kubernetes Enhancement proposals (KEPs) are used to propose and communicate changes to sub-projects of SIG-Architecture. Following the KEP process is mandatory for all enhancements since Kubernetes 1.14 release.
- Answers to our FAQs can be found here FAQs
- Full details of the KEP process can be found in KEP-1
- Please follow the KEP template available at KEP Template for the enhancement proposal.
- Progress of KEPs can be tracked on our github project board at Kubernetes Enhancements
- Please review OWNERS to connect with enhancement chairs, approvers, and reviewers
Reviewing, approving, and driving changes to the conformance test suite; reviewing, guiding, and creating new conformance profiles
Please see the Conformance Test Review tracking board to follow the work for this sub-project. Please reach out to folks in the OWNERS file if you are interested in joining this effort. There is a lot of overlap with the Kubernetes Software Conformance Working Group with this sub project as well. The github group cncf-conformance-wg enumerates the folks on this working group. Look for the area/conformance label in the kubernetes repositories to mark issues and PRs.
Overall code organization, including github repositories and branching methodology, top-level and pkg OWNERS of kubernetes/kubernetes, vendoring
Please see the Code Organization tracking board to follow the work of this sub-project. Please reach out to folks in the OWNERS file if you are interested in joining this effort. Look for the area/code-organization label in the kubernetes repositories to mark issues and PRs. We also use area/dependency label as well issues and PRs.
Defining and documenting the processes for ensuring production readiness of new and promoted features, as well as producing tooling to enforce those processes.