sig-network

Network Special Interest Group

Covers networking in Kubernetes.

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Network Special Interest Group.

Meetings

Joining the mailing list for the group will typically add invites for the following meetings to your calendar.

• Gateway API GAMMA Meeting (APAC Friendly): Tuesdays at 15:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
• Gateway API GAMMA Meeting (EMEA Friendly): Tuesdays at 08:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
• Gateway API Meeting: Mondays at 15:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
• Network Policy API Meeting: Mondays at 13:00 PT (Pacific Time) (bi-weekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
• SIG Network Ingress NGINX Meeting: Thursdays at 8:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.
• SIG Network KPNG APAC Meeting: Wednesdays at 16:00 IST (Indian Standard Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
• SIG Network KPNG Meeting: Fridays at 7:30 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
• SIG Network Meeting: Thursdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Casey Davenport (@caseydavenport), Tigera
• Dan Williams (@dcbw), Red Hat
• Tim Hockin (@thockin), Google

Contact

• Slack: #sig-network
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs
• GitHub Teams:
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-api-reviews - API Changes and Reviews
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-bugs - Bug Triage and Troubleshooting
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-feature-requests - Feature Requests
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-misc - General Discussion
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-pr-reviews - PR Reviews
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-proposals - Design Proposals
  • @kubernetes/sig-network-test-failures - Test Failures and Triage
• Steering Committee Liaison: Tim Pepper (@tpepper)

Working Groups

The following working groups are sponsored by sig-network:

• WG IoT Edge
• WG Multitenancy
• WG Policy
• WG Structured Logging

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-network:

cluster-proportional-autoscaler

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/cluster-proportional-autoscaler

cluster-proportional-vertical-autoscaler

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/cluster-proportional-vertical-autoscaler

external-dns

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
• Contact:
  • Slack: #external-dns

gateway-api

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/endpoint
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/proxy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/cloud-provider/controllers/service
• Contact:
  • Slack: #sig-network-gateway-api

ingress

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/ingress-controller-conformance
  • kubernetes/ingress-gce
  • kubernetes/ingress-nginx

iptables-wrappers

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/iptables-wrappers

kpng

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/kpng

kube-dns

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/dns

network-policy

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/network-policy-api
  • kubernetes/api/networking
• Contact:
  • Slack: #sig-network-policy-api

pod-networking

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/ip-masq-agent
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/network

Areas of Responsibility

SIG Network is responsible for the following Kubernetes subsystems:

• DNS
• Ingress
• Network plugins / CNI
• Network Policy
• Services / kube-proxy

SIG Network is responsible for a number of issues and PRs. A summary can be found through GitHub search:

• SIG Network PRs
• SIG Network Issues

Documents

• 2017 Planning