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

• Regular SIG Meeting: Mondays at 9:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Matt Farina (@mattfarina), Samsung SDS
• Adnan Abdulhussein (@prydonius), Bitnami
• Kenneth Owens (@kow3ns), Google

Contact

• Slack
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-apps:

• examples
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/examples/master/OWNERS
• kompose
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kompose/master/OWNERS
• workloads-api
  • Description: The core workloads API, which is composed of the CronJob, DaemonSet, Deployment, Job, ReplicaSet, ReplicationController, and StatefulSet kinds
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/cronjob/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/daemon/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/deployment/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/disruption/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/history/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/job/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/replicaset/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/replication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/statefulset/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/apps/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/core/v1/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/batch/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/extensions/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/apps/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/batch/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/extensions/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/apps/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/core/v1/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/batch/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/test/e2e/apps/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/test/integration/daemonset/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/test/integration/deployment/OWNERS
• application
  • Description: Application metadata descriptor CRD
  • Owners:
    • https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/application/blob/master/OWNERS

GitHub Teams

The below teams can be mentioned on issues and PRs in order to get attention from the right people. Note that the links to display team membership will only work if you are a member of the org.

Team Name	Details	Description
@kubernetes/sig-apps-api-reviews	link	API Changes and Reviews
@kubernetes/sig-apps-bugs	link	Bug Triage and Troubleshooting
@kubernetes/sig-apps-feature-requests	link	Feature Requests
@kubernetes/sig-apps-misc	link	General Discussion
@kubernetes/sig-apps-pr-reviews	link	PR Reviews
@kubernetes/sig-apps-proposals	link	Design Proposals
@kubernetes/sig-apps-test-failures	link	Test Failures and Triage

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.