Merge pull request #7831 from SergeyKanzhelev/sig-node-2023-annual-report

SIG Node annual report 2023

Author: k8s-ci-robot

sig-node/annual-report-2023.md

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 1. What work did the SIG do this year that should be highlighted?
 
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-   Some example items that might be worth highlighting:
-   - Major KEP advancement
-   - Important initiatives that aren't tracked via KEPs
-   - Paying down significant tech debt
-   - Governance and leadership changes
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+As accelerator workloads importance grows, SIG Node **doubled down on DRA**
+related work. There were a few changes proposed and many improvements started in
+2023 will be continued in 2024.
+
+SIG Node started many alpha-level features in 2023. Specifically, **SIG Node
+green-lit two major features that touch Pod Lifecycle** that used to be hard to
+change in the past. InPlace pod update is still in alpha. Sidecar containers
+reached beta stage and were enabled by default in 1.29. Note that sidecar
+containers' importance is also partially driven by AI/ML training workloads that
+highly depend on reliable sidecar containers support in Kubernetes.
+
+Group is also continuing the effort of **eliminating perma-betas**. A few old beta
+features were GA-d and there are plans to continue this effort in 2024.
 
 2. Are there any areas and/or subprojects that your group needs help with (e.g. fewer than 2 active OWNERS)?
 
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-   Note: This list is generated from the KEP metadata in kubernetes/enhancements repository.
-      If you find any discrepancy in the generated list here, please check the KEP metadata.
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+SIG Node delivers the highest number of KEPs in many releases despite the fact
+that SIG Node is heavily bottlenecked on the number of approvers. Approvers are
+overloaded, which creates community tension around KEPs which cannot get enough
+attention. This is true for global approvers, as well as subprojects like NPD.
+SIG Node codebase is hard to split into individual components, which makes the
+growing of new approvers harder.
+
+Even with the push for perma beta elimination, SIG Node still has many features
+that are heavily used in production, but still marked as beta. Most of the time,
+the work needed is not challenging or complicated, but requires a lot of effort.
+Help in this area will be very appreciated.
 
 3. Did you have community-wide updates in 2023 (e.g. KubeCon talks)?
 
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+- KubeCon EU 2023 [maintainers track](https://kccnceu2023.sched.com/event/1HyU4/kubernetes-sig-node-intro-and-deep-dive-sergey-kanzhelev-dawn-chen-google-derek-carr-mrunal-patel-red-hat)
+- KubeCon China 2023 [maintainers track](https://kccncosschn2023.sched.com/event/1PTJk/kubernetes-sigze-tao-recheng-kubernetes-sig-node-intro-and-deep-dive-paco-xu-daocloud-xiongxiong-yuan-gitlab-china)
+- KubeCon NA 2023 [maintainers track](https://kccncna2023.sched.com/event/1R2qd/kubernetes-sig-node-intro-and-deep-dive-sergey-kanzhelev-google-mrunal-patel-red-hat)
 
 4. KEP work in 2023 (v1.27, v1.28, v1.29):
 
   - Alpha
     - [1287 - In-place Update of Pod Resources](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/1287-in-place-update-pod-resources) - v1.27
     - [2371 - cAdvisor-less, CRI-full Container and Pod Stats](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/2371-cri-pod-container-stats) - v1.29
     - [2570 - Memory QoS](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/2570-memory-qos) - v1.27
-    - [3619 - Fine grained SupplementalGroups control](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3619-supplemental-groups-policy) - v1.28
     - [3673 - KEP Template](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3673-kubelet-parallel-image-pull-limit) - v1.27
     - [3695 - Extend the PodResources API to include resources allocated by DRA](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3695-pod-resources-for-dra) - v1.27
     - [3960 - Pod lifecycle sleep action](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3960-pod-lifecycle-sleep-action) - v1.29
     - [3983 - Add support for a kubelet drop-in configuration directory](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/3983-drop-in-configuration) - v1.28
     - [4033 - Discover cgroup driver from CRI](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4033-group-driver-detection-over-cri) - v1.28
-    - [4188 - New kubelet gRPC API with endpoint returning local pods information](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4188-kubelet-pod-readiness-api) - v1.29
     - [4191 - Splitting the Image Filesystem](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4191-split-image-filesystem) - v1.29
     - [4210 - ImageMaximumGCAge in Kubelet](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4210-max-image-gc-age) - v1.29
     - [4216 - Image pull per runtime class](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4216-image-pull-per-runtime-class) - v1.29
@@ -68,8 +78,10 @@
 
 **New in 2023:**
   - [resource-management](https://git.k8s.io/community/<no value>#resource-management)
+
 **Retired in 2023:**
   - noderesourcetopology-api
+
 **Continuing:**
   - ci-testing
   - cri-api
@@ -85,6 +97,7 @@
 
 **Retired in 2023:**
  - Multitenancy
+
 **Continuing:**
  - Batch
  - Policy
@@ -93,12 +106,12 @@
 ## Operational
 
 Operational tasks in [sig-governance.md]:
-- [ ] [README.md] reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
-- [ ] [CONTRIBUTING.md] reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
-- [ ] Other contributing docs (e.g. in devel dir or contributor guide) reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
-- [ ] Subprojects list and linked OWNERS files in [sigs.yaml] reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
-- [ ] SIG leaders (chairs, tech leads, and subproject leads) in [sigs.yaml] are accurate and active, and updated if needed
-- [ ] Meeting notes and recordings for 2023 are linked from [README.md] and updated/uploaded if needed
+- [X] [README.md] reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
+- [X] [CONTRIBUTING.md] reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
+- [X] Other contributing docs (e.g. in devel dir or contributor guide) reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
+- [X] Subprojects list and linked OWNERS files in [sigs.yaml] reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
+- [X] SIG leaders (chairs, tech leads, and subproject leads) in [sigs.yaml] are accurate and active, and updated if needed
+- [X] Meeting notes and recordings for 2023 are linked from [README.md] and updated/uploaded if needed
 
 
 [CONTRIBUTING.md]: https://git.k8s.io/community/sig-node/CONTRIBUTING.md