Community: SIG Network Charter

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

SIG Network 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

SIG Network is responsible for the components, interfaces, and APIs which expose networking capabilities to Kubernetes users and workloads. SIG Network also provides some reference implementations of these APIs, for example kube-proxy as a reference implementation of the Service API.

In scope

The following topics fall under ownership of this SIG:

Networking control plane and data paths.
Network service abstractions.
Service discovery (DNS).
Service load balancing (L4, L7).
Network security and identity.
Cluster connectivity.
Cross-cutting concerns such as scalability.
Metrics and monitoring associated with networking components.
Multi-cluster networking (shared responsibility with sig-multicluster ).

Code, Binaries and Services

Services
- APIs for defining and grouping network endpoints (i.e. EndpointSlices , or the older Endpoints API)
- APIs for defining L3/4 loadbalancing (i.e. Service , Gateway API )
- Reference implementations (i.e. kube-proxy ).
Ingress
- APIs for defining ingress loadbalancing (i.e. Ingress , Gateway API , Gateway API Inference Extension )
- API Implementations (i.e. ingress-nginx , InGate )
Network Policy
- APIs for defining network policies (i.e. NetworkPolicy , AdminNetworkPolicy , BaselineAdminNetworkPolicy )
- Reference implementations (i.e. kube-network-policies )
Cluster DNS.
Integration points with networking implementations (i.e. Container Network Interface (CNI) ).
Container Runtime Interface (CRI) (With sig-node ).
Cloud provider network integrations (With sig-cloud-provider ).

Cross-cutting and Externally Facing Processes

Out of scope

The CNI specification itself, which is maintained outside the Kubernetes project
Particular implementations of the CNI specification

Roles and Organization Management

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

Additional responsibilities of Chairs

None

Additional responsibilities of Tech Leads

None

Deviations from sig-governance

None

Subproject Creation

SIG Technical Leads

Kubernetes Contributors – SIG Network