CLI Special Interest Group

Covers kubectl and related tools. We focus on the development and standardization of the CLI framework and its dependencies, the establishment of conventions for writing CLI commands, POSIX compliance, and improving the command line tools from a developer and devops user experience and usability perspective.

The charter defines the scope and governance of the CLI Special Interest Group.

Meetings

• Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 09:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

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

• Maciej Szulik (@soltysh), Red Hat
• Sean Sullivan (@seans3), Google

Technical Leads

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

• Maciej Szulik (@soltysh), Red Hat
• Phillip Wittrock (@pwittrock), Google

Emeritus Leads

• Fabiano Franz (@fabianofranz), Red Hat
• Tony Ado (@AdoHe), Alibaba

Contact

• Slack
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-cli:

• kubectl
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubectl/master/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubectl/OWNERS
• kustomize
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/OWNERS
• cli-sdk
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime/master/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/cli-runtime/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/sample-cli-plugin/master/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/sample-cli-plugin/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-cli-api-reviews	link	API Changes and Reviews
@kubernetes/sig-cli-bugs	link	Bug Triage and Troubleshooting
@kubernetes/sig-cli-feature-requests	link	Feature Requests
@kubernetes/sig-cli-maintainers	link	CLI Maintainers
@kubernetes/sig-cli-misc	link	General Discussion
@kubernetes/sig-cli-pr-reviews	link	PR Reviews
@kubernetes/sig-cli-proposals	link	Design Proposals
@kubernetes/sig-cli-test-failures	link	Test Failures and Triage