How to Contribute to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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The document outlines the concept of cloud-native applications, emphasizing their design for agile deployment and operation in cloud environments using microservices and containers. It describes the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), including its leadership, technical oversight, and various projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus, as well as opportunities for contribution through SIGs, documentation, and community engagement. Additionally, it highlights the importance of certifications, training, marketing, and organizing events to foster community involvement and promote cloud-native technologies.
How to Contribute to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- 1. Contribution to CNCF Various ways â Not source code aloneâŠâŠ Krishna Kumar CNCF Ambassador 7th April 2017
- 3. What is cloud native Cloud-native applications are purpose built for the cloud model. These applicationsâbuilt and deployed in a rapid cadence by small, dedicated feature teams to a platform that offers easy scale-out and hardware decouplingâoffer organizations greater agility, resilience, and portability across clouds. Pivotal At the heart of "cloud-native" lie Linux, Linux containers, and the concept of applications assembled as microservices in containers. Indeed, the Linux Foundation launched the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. But cloud-native means a lot more than implementing Linux clusters and running containers. It's a term that recognizes that getting software to work in the cloud requires a broad set of components that work together. It also requires an architecture that departs from traditional enterprise application design. . Charles -informationWeek Hereâs how a blog on IBMâs developer web site distinguishes the two adjectives Cloud-Native and Cloud-Enabled: You can say that a cloud-enabled application is an application that was moved to cloud, but it was originally developed for deployment in a traditional data center. Some characteristics of the application had to be changed or customized for the cloud. On the other hand, a cloud-centric application (also known as cloud-native and cloud-ready) is an application that was developed with the cloud principles of multi- tenancy, elastic scaling and easy integration and administration in its design. 12 factors (solid principle for Cloud Native Software Architecture) Codebase One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys Dependencies Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies Config Store configuration in the environment Backing Services Treat backing services as attached resources Build, release, run Strictly separate build and run stages Processes Execute the app as one or more stateless processes Port binding Export services via port binding Concurrency Scale out via the process model Disposability Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown Dev/prod parity Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible Logs Treat logs as event streams Admin processes Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes
- 4. CNCF Projects 1) Kuberenets - Deployment & managing containers 2) Fluentd - Logging to unify data collection 3) Linkerd - Proxy for service discovery and routing 4) OpenTracing - Distributed tracing 5) Prometheus - Monitoring with metric & alerting 6) GRPC - Define services using Protocol buffers 7) CoreDNS - Service Discovery for Cloud 8) Containerd - Container runtime by Docker 9) Rkt - Pod-native container engine for Linux All these projects are available at github.com
- 5. There are several other open source projects in incubation stage at present and some of them may move to the graduate status soon. Some of those projects may be: ï±CockroachDB - Database ï±OpenZipkin - Tracing ï±NATS - Messaging ï±Heron - Stream Processing ï±Calico/Weave - Networking ï±etcd - Configuration ï±Minio - Storage ï±GitLab - Repository for code, test, deploy ï±RethinkDB - Distributed database for real time web apps â just got into Linux Foundation but not part of CNCF yet.
- 7. CNCF Leadership Team âą The leader ship team Executive Director is Dan Kohn, who helped create Linux Foundations Infrastructure initiative. Their COO Chris Aniszczyk, who is the former head of Twitterâs open source, is another key person in the foundation. There are other project managers and event coordinators in the leadership team to keep the foundation in good shape. âą The governing board of the CNCF consists of people from Coreos, Weaveworks, Mesosphere, Samsung, Docker, Redhat, Supernap, Cisco, Fujitsu, Apcera, Google, Intel, Huawei, Joyent, Apprenda, IBM, NetApp. The board looks into business oversight of the foundation. âą The technical over sight committee (TOC) includes Alexis Richardson WEAVEWORKS (TOC CHAIR), Ben Hindman MESOSPHERE, Brian Grant GOOGLE, Bryan Cantrill JOYENT, Camille Fournier INDEPENDENT, Elissa Murphy GOOGLE, Jonathan Boulle COREOS, Kenneth Owens CISCO, Solomon Hykes DOCKER and Quinton Hoole from huawei. These people drive the direction of the foundation on core technology decisions. They define and maintain the technical vision, approve new projects, align interfaces and practices. âą More details here: https://www.cncf.io/about/technical-oversight-committee
- 10. SIG & WG Program âą There are SIG programs available for various CNCF projects. Like the one shown for Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/README.m d#special-interest-groups-sig, âą These groups meets weekly and discuss the community activity mainly technical in nature. There are various workgroups one can sign up. âą Also you could start a new SIG as shown below https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig- creation-procedure.md
- 11. Source Code âą One of the prominent contributions to the open source community is in the form of source code. There is specific governance provided by the Kubernetes community to contribute source and documents. More here: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/governance.md âą From it, one can see there is a hierarchical structure of contribution status and one could become a maintainer or project approver in due course. Similar models may be applicable to other projects in the CNCF. âą The project statistics available here: https://cncf.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard/Overview shows a glimpse of the contribution made to each CNCF projects by the partner companies. It may be upgraded to get the individual level details of the contribution.
- 13. Creating a new project âą If you have a new project to propose to CNCF please go through the document shown in the link https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/process/project_proposals.adoc âą You start with proposing the project to the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and based on the vote in TOC it may get accepted to the inception, incubation or graduate stage. The process is the same for both existing projects which seek to move into the CNCF, and new projects to be formed within the CNCF. âą To graduate from inception or incubation status, the project must meet the criteria as shown in the link https://www.cncf.io/projects/graduation-criteria Cluster Setup âą You can help setting up CNCF test bed at local or supporting existing cluster setup available https://github.com/cncf/cluster. The community working on the CNCF project can avail the cluster resources for develop, debug and run the projects. This can act as a good initial staging ground for the projects before moving to the production.
- 14. Documents âą Documents are an essential part of the any software development process but most often ignored. These may include user guides, architectures, presentations, etc. âą One of the easiest ways to contribute to open source is making small changes to the documents. The CNCF documents are maintained under https://github.com/cncf. âą Developers mainly concentrate on the code delivery aspects and ignore the documentation for most beginners, it is better to start with documentation and then move to code development as a smooth transition and get to know the things.
- 15. Mailing List âą There is a CNCF mailing list with community interactions and those are cncf-ci-public, cncf- kubernetescertwg, cncf-marketing and cncf-toc. Lots of discussions taking place in these mailing lists and you can add value participating. Mailing list link is here https://lists.cncf.io/mailman/listinfo Slack âą There is a slack channel called slack.cncf.io with lots of general discussion about CNCF activities and projects specific underneath. Similarly there are slack channels for kubernetes, Prometheus, etc. Pleas e sign up and get involve with the community. Access the slack here https://slack.cncf.io/ Twitter âą The handle @CloudNativeFdn is the best place to catch up the latest news on all CNCF. Similar to this handles like @kubernetesio for Kubernetes, @opentracing for OpenTracing projects, etc. are also available. During November 2016 the last CloudNativeCon at Seattle, several tweets were posted with varying degree of information and fun activities too. Blog & News Letter âą This area https://www.cncf.io/newsroom/blog covers lots of useful information. Not only you can contribute to the blog section, the newsletter can be subscribed and shared. Some of the latest information on the community are described in detail here.
- 16. Certifications âą There is a certification program initiated by the foundation and it is in beta testing state. This certification is more of hands-on in nature. âą Candidates perform actual tasks within a live Kubernetes cluster environment. The exam may consist of approx. 40-50 questions in all. âą Following are the topics for the certification exam: Scheduling, Logging, Monitoring, Application Lifecycle Management, Core Concepts, Cluster Maintenance, Security, Storage, Networking, Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting. âą One can also contribute to the certification creation group with your ideas and suggestions to make certifications more valuable to the community. âą Training Programs âą https://www.cncf.io/tag/certification/ âą Course Kubernetes Fundamentals (LFS258) for $99 now. âą One can really step in and help develop new courses! âą https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2016/11/08/cloud-native-computing-foundation- launches-certification-training-managed-service-provider-program-kubernetes/ âą BETA Certifications âą You can join the SIG to get more details - [email protected] âą Just announced in this KubeCon 2017 Germany Exam BETA is coming in May (Kubernetes Certified Administrator Exam) https://github.com/cncf/curriculum
- 17. Marketing âą There is a marketing committee which does the branding and event management activities. It is possible to get involve with them and get some events hosted in your local cities. For example, recently in US, there is a Roadshow launched and several other cities this is getting expanded. Help brand the community, provide good marketing material to host in the web site and even update the content of the CNCF web site could help the community. Ambassador Program âą CNCF has a program called ambassadors who contribute to the CNCF projects in various ways. The Cloud Native Ambassador program exists to empower community members with tools and resources needed to: âą Promote cloud native projects and technology âą Educate a local community on the CNCF mission âą Contribute to CNCF projects âą More details are here https://www.cncf.io/about/ambassadors
- 18. Conferences / Roadshows âą In a bigger scale of community get together happens in conferences, roadshows, etc. CNCF organizes events at US, Europe and Asia at very big scale. One could participate in conference paper submissions, Birds of Feather discussion, panel discussion and also other logistics for the events. In addition there are CNCF roadshows happening all around the world and one could participate from the sponsorship to the technical content delivery. The ClouNativeCon just finished at Berlin Germany on March 28-30 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudnativecon-and-kubecon-europe Meetup âą Code commit is just a one method to contribute. There are several other ways to contribute. Setting up a local meetup group is the simplest ones to start with. Organize regular sessions, hackathons and other hand-on activities to get the community learning going faster and attract new folks to the CNCF fold. Worldwide CNCF meetup groups information is available here http://www.meetup.com/pro/cncf/