Most community activity is organized into working groups.
Working groups follow the contributing guidelines although each of these groups may operate a little differently depending on their needs and workflow.
When the need arises, a new working group can be created, please post to technical-oversight-committee working group if you think a new group is necessary.
The working groups generate design docs which are kept in a Team Drive. Anybody can access the team drive for reading and commenting. To get access simply join the istio-team-drive-access@ group. Once you've done that, head to Team Drive and behold all the docs.
The current working groups are:
| Group | Design Docs | Discussion Forum | Slack Channel | Meeting Notes | Meeting Link | Meeting Recordings | Description |
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| Docs | Folder | Forum | #docs | Notes | Hangouts Meet | n/a | User docs, information architecture, istio.io infrastructure |
| Environments | Folder | Forum | #environments | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Raw VM support, Hybrid Mesh, Mac/Windows support, Cloud Foundry integration |
| Networking | Folder | Forum | #networking | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Traffic Management, TCP Support, Additional L7 protocols, Proxy injection |
| Performance and Scalability | Folder | Forum | #perf-and-scalability | Notes | Hangouts Meet | n/a | Performance and scalability characterization and improvements |
| Policies and Telemetry | Folder | Forum | #policies-telemetry | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Istio extensions for features such as Rate Limiting, Tracing, Monitoring, Logging |
| Security | Folder | Forum | #security | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Service-to-service Auth, Identity/CA/SecretStore plugins, Identity Federation, End User Auth, Authority Delegation, Auditing |
| Test and Release | Folder | Forum | #test-and-release | Notes | Hangouts Meet | YouTube | Build, test, release |
| User Experience | UX Config(old) | Forum | #user-experience #config | Notes | WebEx | YouTube | User experience across Istio, API and CLI guidelines and support |
NOTE: Config working group responsibilities have been merged into User Experience.
To join Istio's Slack workspace, please fill out this form.
Working groups meet regularly. The meetings are open to anyone interested, so please join us. There's a number of ways to track the meeting schedules:
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You can view the schedule of upcoming working group meetings in this calendar.
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You can download an ICS file to import the working group meetings into your favorite iCal client.
If you have a Google account, you can also:
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Link the working group event calendar directly to your account.
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Add yourself to the istio-working-group-calendar-invites@ group. This will automatically invite you to all of the working group meetings on your primary Google calendar.
Each working group has one or more leads which coordinate the activities of the group:
| Name | Company | Groups | |
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Brian Avery | Red Hat | Test and Release |
| Costin Manolache | Networking - Control Plane | ||
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Frank Budinsky | IBM | Docs |
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Steven Dake | IBM | Environments |
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Surya V Duggirala | IBM | Performance and Scalability |
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John Howard | Environments | |
| Mandar Jog | Policies and Telemetry, Performance and Scalability | ||
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Oliver Liu | Security | |
| Martin Ostrowski | Environments | ||
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Francois Pesce | Test and Release | |
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Douglas Reid | Policies and Telemetry | |
| Piotr Sikora | Networking - Data Plane | ||
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Ed Snible | IBM | User Experience |
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Eric Van Norman | IBM | Test and Release |
| Limin Wang | Security | ||
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Jason Young | User Experience | |
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Neeraj Poddar | Aspen Mesh | Networking - Control Plane |
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Lizan Zhou | Tetrate | Networking - Data Plane, Security |
If you'd like to reach out to the working group leads, please drop a note to [email protected].