[iot-wg] An update on the Kubernetes IoT/Edge Working Group

[Benjamin Cabé <benjamin.cabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

The last few weeks have been pretty busy for many of the participants to this group, so I though it would be useful to provide a quick update on the Kubernetes Working Group we are in the process of creating to address IoT and Edge computing topics in the context of Kubernetes and cloud native computing.

A lot of time has been spent getting feedback and guidance from the Kubernetes and CNCF community as many of us were not necessarily familiar with how they operate, but I believe we are now in a good shape to effectively create the group and start doing real stuff ;-)

• There’s been a lot of ongoing discussions on the kubernetes Google Groups, and lots of people have expressed interest - see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/kubernetes-sig-network/md7xv6VVc9c/eF3w8lyaAAAJ 
• The consensus seems to be on initially focusing the WG on identifying some typical IoT use cases, and documenting the associated architectures and how they may expose some potential issues/concerns/areas of improvement in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Based on these, the WG may feed some requirements into the Kubernetes SIGs that are responsible for the relevant projects (e.g kubelet, …).
• Thanks to Dejan and with the help of other folks from the Kubernetes community, the resources required to operate the Working Group are almost all created now, namely:
• A mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-wg-iot-edge
• A github repository to host the artifacts/deliverables of the WG: https://github.com/k8s-mirror-wg-iot-edge
• A working document that will likely and eventually be the first deliverable of the WG: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1We-pRDV9LDFo-vd9DURCPC5-Bum2FvjHUGZ1tacGmk8/edit#
• One of the last outstanding tasks will be to "officially" request the creation of the WG, and get it added to https://github.com/kubernetes/community - Dejan and I will get this done later this week.

In the meantime, I would encourage anyone interested in participating to this effort to:

1. Add your organization/name as an interested party to the Google Docs (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1We-pRDV9LDFo-vd9DURCPC5-Bum2FvjHUGZ1tacGmk8/edit#heading=h.n4tqqt3iuizs) 
2. Fill in this Doodle form (https://doodle.com/poll/5632z5ks8tm2simy) for indicating your availability to attend the Kubernetes IoT WG bi-weekly sync calls going forward. The Doodle poll is for the next meeting but the idea is to stick to this day/time for meeting every other week. 

Please let Dejan or I know if you have any questions,

Benjamin -

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Benjamin Cabé
IoT Program Manager

Eclipse Foundation
+33 (0) 619196101
@kartben

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