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Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
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Jesse White is a 15-year veteran and technology leader in New York City's very own Silicon Alley, where he is a pillar of the vibrant engineering ecosystem. As founder of DockerNYC and an active participant in the open source community, you can find Jesse at a number of leading industry events, including DockerCon and VelocityConf, giving talks and workshops.
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Chapter 11. Kubernetes SIGs, Incubation Projects, and the CNCF

In this chapter, we're going to discuss how to get involved in the softer, social side of the Kubernetes ecosystem. We'll go into detail on how the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) works, and the various efforts being made to orchestrate open source software at a global level. There's interest in our ecosystem at every level, from the individual contributor all the way up to the Fortune 100 mega-corporation.

We'll explore how the CNCF and its predecessors, the Linux and Apache Foundations, guide interest and contributions into the people and software economy. Some of the key areas will manage governance, tracking, and processes that are designed to keep people, process, and technology evolving in a sustainable, reliable model. In this chapter, we'll explore several key areas:

  • How is the community around the Kubernetes ecosystem constructed? How is it different from the traditional Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) or...

Technical requirements

In order to move quickly through this chapter, you should make sure that you have a GitHub account set up, with SSH key and account details configured correctly. Why is this important, you may ask? Well, to get involved with the CNCF, and the Linux or Apache Foundations, you'll need a way to browse, consume, and contribute to code. Git is the underlying tool and process that's used to participate, so we'll make sure here that our toolset is correctly set up before proceeding to the higher level topics.

You can sign up for GitHub and once you've added the account, you can review the help area in the GitHub Guides section of the website at https://guides.github.com/. For our purposes in this chapter, you'll need to set up an SSH key in order to start cloning, signing, and committing code.

If you're on Windows, you'll need to use Git Bash, or something similar, to generate a key. You can download Git Bash from https://gitforwindows.org/.

Install the software first, and then...

CNCF structure

As a refresher, let's remind ourselves about the entire Kubernetes system, so we can understand conceptually where the ecosystem referred to in this chapter sits:

In this chapter, we're talking about the top, greenest layer in the preceding diagram. This layer is made up of hundreds of companies and products that power the software and frameworks needed to run Kubernetes at scale. You can find the highest level of grouping of this layer in a couple of places:

  • The first place to check is the Kubernetes Community GitHub repository:
    • You can find the repository at https://github.com/kubernetes/community, and it's a good starting point for anyone who's interested in joining the code-powered portions of the Kubernetes system. In the preceding diagram, consider the layers nucleus through interface, that is, layers one through four. Here's where we'll find the Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which will allow us to branch us out into the ecosystem layer where we can explore the supporting...

Kubernetes SIGs

In addition to all the players mentioned previously, there is a set of complementary SIGs that meet regularly to discuss issues and opportunities from within a given focus area of the Kubernetes ecosystem. From within those SIGs, there are sub-bounded working groups that aim to accomplish a specific goal. There are also sub-projects that further cut up the interest space, and committees, which are there to define meta-standards and address community-wide issues.

 

 

Here's a list of the current SIGs in operation, with the current chairs and meeting schedules:

How to get involved

The last thing we wanted to share with you is intended to point you in the right direction so you can start to contribute directly to Kubernetes or other related software. Kubernetes has a great contributor guide, and you should consider contributing for several reasons:

  • It's a great way to understand the core concepts and inner workings of Kubernetes. Writing the software of the system will give you, as an operator or developer, a unique understanding of how everything works.
  • It's a fun way to meet other motivated, smart people. The world is becoming more and more interconnected, and OSS is powering some of the biggest companies in the world. Working directly on this technology will introduce you to engineers at the world's most advanced companies, and may even open to the door to significant career opportunities.
  • Kubernetes, at its essence, is a community project, and relies on the contributions of its members and users. Getting involved with direct contribution of documentation...

Summary

In this chapter, you learned more about the Kubernetes ecosystem surrounding the Kubernetes system that we've been learning about. You've read about the core pieces of the CNCF, and we've explored the Cloud Native Trail Map to understand all of the supporting technology. We also looked at the SIGs, along with how you can start contributing to Kubernetes itself and why that's important!

Questions

  1. Name at least one graduated project in the CNCF
  2. Name at least three projects that are incubating in the CNCF
  3. Name at least one project in the CNCF sandbox
  4. What is the goal of the committee in the CNCF?
  5. Why is it important to get involved with OSS development?
  6. What kind of cipher material does Git contribution require?

Further reading

If you'd like to read more about how to master Git, check out the following resource from Packt Publishing: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-git.

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Jonathan Baier

Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
Read more about Jonathan Baier

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Jesse White

Jesse White is a 15-year veteran and technology leader in New York City's very own Silicon Alley, where he is a pillar of the vibrant engineering ecosystem. As founder of DockerNYC and an active participant in the open source community, you can find Jesse at a number of leading industry events, including DockerCon and VelocityConf, giving talks and workshops.
Read more about Jesse White

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Chairs

Meetings

API Machinery (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-api-machinery/README.md)

Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FQx0BPlkkl1Bn0c9ocVBxYIKojpmrS1CFP5h0DI68AE/edit)

Apps (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master...