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 ask in #toc-steering-questions in the Istio Slack if you think a new group is necessary.
The working groups generate design docs which are kept in a shared Google Drive. Anybody can access the drive for reading and commenting. To get access simply join the istio-team-drive-access@ group. Once you've done that, head to the team drive and behold all the docs.
The below links to Slack require you to first be logged into Istio's Slack workspace. Please use this link if you need to join.
The current working groups are:
| Group | Design Docs | Slack Channel | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docs | Folder | #docs | User docs, information architecture, istio.io infrastructure |
| Environments | Folder | #environments | Raw VM support, Hybrid Mesh, Mac/Windows support, Cloud Foundry integration |
| Networking | Folder | #networking | Traffic Management, TCP Support, Additional L7 protocols, Proxy injection |
| Extensions and Telemetry | Folder | #extensions-telemetry | WebAssembly based extensibility, Istio extensions for features such as Rate Limiting, Tracing, Monitoring, Logging |
| Product Security | Folder | Report a vulnerability | Product Security: Vulnerability, security guidelines, threats |
| Security | Folder | #security | Service-to-service Auth, Identity/CA/SecretStore plugins, Identity Federation, End User Auth, Authority Delegation, Auditing |
| Test and Release | Folder | #test-and-release | Build, test, release |
| User Experience | UX | #user-experience | User experience across Istio, API and CLI guidelines and support |
Currently all working groups share a weekly meeting, on Wednesdays at 9:00 AM PST. The meetings are open to anyone interested, so please join us. The meeting can be joined with this link, and the notes can be found here. We also have a special meeting for working on Ambient Mesh, on Wednesdays at 10:00 AM PST, which you can join and read about.
There's a number of ways to track the meeting schedule:
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rama Chavali | Salesforce | Networking - Control Plane | |
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Mitch Connors | Aviatrix | User Experience |
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Greg Hanson | Solo.io | Product Security |
| Jianpeng He | Tetrate | Extensions and Telemetry | |
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John Howard | Solo.io | Networking |
| Steven Landow | Solo.io | Networking - Control Plane | |
| Costin Manolache | Environments | ||
| Sam Naser | Aviatrix | Environments | |
| Justin Pettit | Product Security | ||
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Ed Snible | IBM | User Experience |
| Lei Tang | Security, Extensions and Telemetry | ||
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Eric Van Norman | IBM | Test and Release |
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Lizan Zhou | Aviatrix | Networking - Data Plane, Security |