community/sig-apps

Apps Special Interest Group

Covers deploying and operating applications in Kubernetes. We focus on the developer and devops experience of running applications in Kubernetes. We discuss how to define and run apps in Kubernetes, demo relevant tools and projects, and discuss areas of friction that can lead to suggesting improvements or feature requests.

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Apps 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: Mondays at 9:00 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.

• Janet Kuo (@janetkuo), Google
• Kenneth Owens (@kow3ns), Snowflake
• Maciej Szulik (@soltysh), Defense Unicorns

Technical Leads

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

• Janet Kuo (@janetkuo), Google
• Kenneth Owens (@kow3ns), Snowflake
• Maciej Szulik (@soltysh), Defense Unicorns

Emeritus Leads

• Matt Farina (@mattfarina)
• Adnan Abdulhussein (@prydonius)

Contact

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

Working Groups

The following working groups are sponsored by sig-apps:

• WG Batch
• WG Data Protection
• WG Serving

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-apps:

application

Application metadata descriptor CRD

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/application

examples

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/examples

execution-hook

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/execution-hook

kjob

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/kjob

kompose

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kompose
• Contact:
  • Slack: #kompose

workloads-api

The core workloads API, which is composed of the CronJob, DaemonSet, Deployment, Job, ReplicaSet, ReplicationController, PodDisruptionBudget and StatefulSet kinds

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/jobset
  • kubernetes-sigs/lws
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/apps
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/batch
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/core/v1
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/extensions
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/policy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/cronjob
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/daemon
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/deployment
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/disruption
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/history
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/job
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/replicaset
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/replication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/statefulset
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/apps
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/batch
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/extensions
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/apps
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/batch
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/core/v1
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/policy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/test/e2e/apps
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/test/integration/daemonset
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/test/integration/deployment

Goals

• Discuss running and defining applications in Kubernetes (e.g., APIs, SDKs, Controllers, package management tools, etc.)
• Work on improvements to the Workload API
• Suggest Kubernetes features where we see friction
• Be the voice of the people running applications in Kubernetes (developers and devops)
• Help people get involved in the Kubernetes community
• Show early features/demos of tools that make running apps easier

Non-goals

• Do not endorse one particular ecosystem tool
• Do not pick which apps to run on top of Kubernetes
• Do not recommend one way to do things (e.g., picking a template language)

Helm and Charts

Helm, Charts and its other subprojects have moved to the CNCF. See Helm's community repository for information about the Helm project.