Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group

The Cluster Lifecycle SIG examines how we should change Kubernetes to make it easier to manage and operate with a focus on cluster deployment and upgrades. Add our calendar to track when we have community meetings.

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

Meetings

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

Regular SIG Meeting (calendar) : Tuesdays 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.

Justin Santa Barbara (@justinsb), Google
Lubomir Ivanov (@neolit123), Independent
Vince Prignano (@vincepri), Red Hat

Technical Leads

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

Fabrizio Pandini (@fabriziopandini), VMware

Emeritus Leads

Cecile Robert-Michon (@CecileRobertMichon)
Lucas Käldström (@luxas)
Robert Bailey (@roberthbailey)
Timothy St. Clair (@timothysc)

Contact

Slack: #sig-cluster-lifecycle
Mailing list
Open Community Issues/PRs
GitHub Teams:
- @kubernetes/sig-cluster-lifecycle - SIG Cluster Lifecycle mailing list
Steering Committee Liaison: Sascha Grunert (@saschagrunert)

Working Groups

The following working groups are sponsored by sig-cluster-lifecycle:

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-cluster-lifecycle:

cluster-addons

A project for figuring out the best way to install, manage and deliver cluster addons

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-addons
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-addons
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster Addons meeting: Tuesdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.

cluster-api

A project focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
- kubernetes-sigs/logical-cluster
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API office hours: Wednesdays at 10:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

cluster-api-addon-provider-helm

Implementation of Cluster Add-on Provider for Helm, an add-on orchestration solution for Cluster API using Helm.

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-addon-provider-helm
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-addon-helm
- Mailing List

cluster-api-ipam-provider-in-cluster

Cluster API IPAM provider

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-ipam-provider-in-cluster

cluster-api-operator

Leverages a declarative API and an operator to empower admins to handle the lifecycle of Cluster API providers within the management cluster

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-operator
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-operator
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API Operator office hours: Wednesdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (every third Wednesday of the month). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

cluster-api-provider-aws

Cluster API infrastructure provider for AWS

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-aws
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API Provider AWS office hours: Mondays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

cluster-api-provider-azure

Cluster API infrastructure provider for Azure

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-azure
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API Provider Azure office hours: Thursdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

cluster-api-provider-cloudstack

Cluster API provider for Apache Cloudstack

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-cloudstack

cluster-api-provider-digitalocean

Cluster API infrastructure provider for DigitalOcean

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-digitalocean
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-digitalocean
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API Provider DigitalOcean office hours: Thursdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (monthly, second Thursday of the month). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

cluster-api-provider-gcp

Cluster API infrastructure provider for GCP

cluster-api-provider-ibmcloud

Cluster API infrastructure provider for IBM Cloud

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-ibmcloud
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-ibmcloud
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API Provider IBM Cloud office hours: Tuesdays at 10:00 IST (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

cluster-api-provider-kubemark

Cluster API infrastructure provider for Kubemark

cluster-api-provider-kubevirt

Cluster API infrastructure provider for KubeVirt

cluster-api-provider-openstack

Cluster API infrastructure provider for OpenStack

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-openstack
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-openstack
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API Provider OpenStack Office Hours: Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC (alternate weeks, check agenda doc for last meeting). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.

cluster-api-provider-vsphere

Cluster API infrastructure provider for vSphere

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
Contact:
- Slack: #cluster-api-vsphere
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Cluster API vSphere meeting: Thursdays at 10:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly starting Thursday June 25th, 2020). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

image-builder

A collection of cross-provider Kubernetes virtual machine image building utilities

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/image-builder
Contact:
- Slack: #image-builder
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- Image Builder office hours: Mondays at 08:30 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

kOps

A tool for creating, destroying, upgrading and maintaining production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes cluster that also provisions infrastructure

Owners:
- kubernetes/kops
Contact:
- Slack: #kops-dev
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- kOps Office Hours: Fridays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.

karpenter-provider-cluster-api

Cluster API Karpenter provider

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/karpenter-provider-cluster-api/heads/main

kubeadm

A tool that performs the actions necessary to get a minimum viable, secure cluster up and running in a user friendly way

Owners:
Contact:
- Slack: #kubeadm
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- kubeadm Office Hours: Wednesdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.
  - Meeting recordings.

kubespray

A project that uses Ansible / Vagrant for deploying production ready clusters on different infrastructure

Owners:
- kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
Contact:
- Slack: #kubespray
- Mailing List

minikube

Implements a local Kubernetes cluster for application development on macOS, Linux, and Windows

Owners:
Contact:
- Slack: #minikube
- Mailing List
Meetings:
- minikube office hours: Mondays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  - Meeting notes and Agenda.