community/sig-network/annual-report-2023.md

2023 Annual Report: SIG Network

Current initiatives and Project Health

1. What work did the SIG do this year that should be highlighted?

2. Are there any areas and/or subprojects that your group needs help with (e.g. fewer than 2 active OWNERS)?

3. Did you have community-wide updates in 2023 (e.g. KubeCon talks)?

4. KEP work in 2023 (v1.27, v1.28, v1.29):

• Alpha

  • 1860 - Make Kubernetes aware of the load balancer behaviour - v1.29
  • 1880 - Multiple Service CIDRs - v1.27
  • 3836 - Kube-proxy improved ingress connectivity reliability - v1.28
  • 3866 - Add an nftables-based kube-proxy backend - v1.29
  • 4004 - Deprecate status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion field - v1.29

• Beta

  • 2681 - Field status.hostIPs added for Pod - v1.29
  • 3458 - Remove transient node predicates from KCCM's service controller - v1.27
  • 3705 - Cloud Dual-Stack --node-ip Handling - v1.29

• Stable

  • 1669 - Proxy Terminating Endpoints - v1.28
  • 2091 - Add support for AdminNetworkPolicy resources - v1.27
  • 2438 - Dual Stack API Server - v1.27
  • 2595 - Expanded DNS Configuration - v1.28
  • 3178 - Cleaning up IPTables Chain Ownership - v1.28
  • 3453 - Minimize iptables-restore input size - v1.28
  • 3668 - Reserve Nodeport Ranges For Dynamic And Static Port Allocation - v1.29
  • 3726 - standard-application-protocols - v1.27

Subprojects

Continuing:

• cluster-proportional-autoscaler
• cluster-proportional-vertical-autoscaler
• external-dns
• gateway-api
• ingress
• iptables-wrappers
• kpng
• kube-dns
• network-policy
• pod-networking

Working groups

Retired in 2023:

• Multitenancy Continuing:
• IoT Edge
• Policy
• Structured Logging

Operational

Operational tasks in sig-governance.md:

• README.md reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• CONTRIBUTING.md reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• Other contributing docs (e.g. in devel dir or contributor guide) reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• Subprojects list and linked OWNERS files in sigs.yaml reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• SIG leaders (chairs, tech leads, and subproject leads) in sigs.yaml are accurate and active, and updated if needed
• Meeting notes and recordings for 2023 are linked from README.md and updated/uploaded if needed