Community: SIG Autoscaling Charter

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

SIG Autoscaling Charter

This charter adheres to the conventions described in the Kubernetes Charter README and uses the Roles and Organization Management outlined in sig-governance .

Scope

Covers development and maintenance of Kubernetes components for automated scaling in Kubernetes. This includes automated vertical and horizontal pod autoscaling, initial resource estimation, cluster-proportional system component autoscaling, and autoscaling of Kubernetes clusters themselves.

In scope

Autoscaling-related API objects, such as the HorizontalPodAutoscaler and VerticalPodAutoscaler
Autoscaling-related tools, such as the cluster autoscaler, single-component scaling tools (e.g. pod-nanny), and cluster-proportional scaling tools
Ensuring API interfaces (the scale subresource) are available and usable to enable other SIGs to write autoscalable objects, and enable people to interact with those interfaces.

Link to SIG section in sigs.yaml

Code, Binaries and Services

Components and utilities that take automated action to scale a component on the cluster (e.g. the horizontal-pod-autoscaler or addon-resizer subproject)
Components and utilities that take automated action to scale the cluster itself (e.g. the cluster-autoscaler subproject)
Special parts of client-go for interacting with with the scaling interfaces used by the HPA (e.g. the scale-client subproject)

Cross-cutting and Externally Facing Processes

Reviewing implementations of the scale subresource to ensure that autoscaling behaves properly
Coordinating with SIG Instrumentation to ensure that metrics APIs are suitable for autoscaling on.
Coordinating with SIG Scheduling to make sure scheduling decisions can interact well with the cluster autoscaler
Coordinating with SIG Cluster Lifecycle on integration between the cluster autoscaler and cluster API
Coordinating with SIG Node around Kubelet requirements for vertical scaling of pods

Out of scope

Testing general cluster performance at scale (this falls under the purview of SIG Scalability ).
Owning metrics APIs (this falls under the purview of SIG Instrumentation ). SIG Autoscaling should collaborate with SIG Instrumentation to ensure that metrics APIs are suitable for using in autoscaling.

Roles and Organization Management

This sig follows adheres to the Roles and Organization Management outlined in sig-governance and opts-in to updates and modifications to sig-governance .

Subproject Creation

SIG Technical Leads

Kubernetes Contributors – SIG Autoscaling