REQUEST: New membership for Bryce Soghigian

[Bryce-Soghigian]

GitHub Username

Bryce-Soghigian

Organization you are requesting membership in

kubernetes, kubernetes-sigs

Requirements

• I have reviewed the community membership guidelines
• I have enabled 2FA on my GitHub account
• I have subscribed to the kubernetes dev e-mail list
• I am actively contributing to 1 or more Kubernetes subprojects
• I have two sponsors that meet the sponsor requirements listed in the community membership guidelines
• I have spoken to my sponsors ahead of this application, and they have agreed to sponsor my application
• I have verified that my sponsors are from different member companies
• I have verified that my sponsors are a reviewer or an approver in at least one OWNERS file within one of the Kubernetes GitHub organizations (excluding the contributor-playground)
• OPTIONAL: I have taken the Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation course

Sponsor 1

@jonathan-innis

Sponsor 2

@tallaxes

List of contributions to the Kubernetes project

Kubernetes Organization Membership Request

Professional Background

I am part of the Azure Kubernetes Service team. I work on AKS's SIG Autoscale Team. My most notable achievement includes being a foundational member in developing the Azure/Karpenter cloud provider, contributing significantly to the productization of Karpenter for Azure, and various critical bug fixes in both the OSS Cluster Autoscaler project, and inside our managed Cluster Autoscaler.

Contributions to AKS Karpenter Provider

My involvement over the past year with the AKS Karpenter Provider, though majorly unreflected in the history due to a project history reset for our OSS launch, has been substantial(I hope so at least). My public contributions since then add substantial value, as seen here:

• Bryce Soghigian's Pull Requests on Azure/Karpenter

Impact on Karpenter Pre-OSS

To summarize a couple of the achievements of value I added to the project pre-oss, I made the little list below.

• Established a publishing pipeline for AKS VHDs to the community, enabling Karpenter's compatibility, and community access to ALL AKS Images.
• Developed a framework for adding new CommunityImage Definitions and resolving image versions in Karpenter, facilitating node auto-provisioning for most SKUs.
• Implemented Karpenter image family validation in NodeTemplate and rolling image upgrades for auto-upgrade support.
• Authored the Karpenter bootstrap for GPU nodes, including a full driver matrix.
• Introduced GPU capacity considerations in Karpenter's internal resource calculations.
• Implemented E2E validation for GPU bootstrapping and customer-supported scenarios.
• Developed unavailable offerings and zonal allocation caching to enhance provisioning efficiency.
• Filtered out SKUs detrimental to customer experience and enabled OS disk size customization for optimal disk selection.
• Integrated ephemeral storage awareness and ARM SKU support in Karpenter's autoscaling decisions.
• Implemented VM provisioning in Karpenter with the Track 2 Azure SDK for Go.
• Prioritized comprehensive unit and E2E testing, covering various aspects of Karpenter functionality, including daemonset behavior, consolidation delete and replace, and storage scenarios.
• Introduced Cgroupsv2 support, containerd templating for flexible configuration, etc.

I can continue to talk about what value I added, but stopped here as I figured this would be sufficent for this portion, and wanted to move onto projects inside of the k8s org even though my karpenter provider work is my largest value I provide to the k8s ecosystem.

Community Engagement

I actively engage in the community through the Slack channel since the project's OSS inception. My work has been instrumental in promoting Kubernetes SIGS Karpenter as a vendor-neutral platform and representing AKS in the cluster autoscaler space. Relevant discussions and issues include:

• Kubernetes SIGS Karpenter Issue 832
• Kubernetes SIGS Karpenter Issue 920
• Kubernetes Autoscaler Issues: #6360, #5959, #5618, #5952, #5923

Cluster Autoscaler Contributions

My contributions to the cluster autoscaler are evident in several pull requests:

• Kubernetes Autoscaler Pull Requests (PR #6321, #5890, #5965, #5966, #5967, #5949, #5381)
  -- Kubernetes Autoscaler Pull Requests:
  • PR #6321
  • PR #5890
  • PR #5965
  • PR #5966
  • PR #5967
  • PR #5381

Other Contributions

• Cloud Provider Azure Pull Request 2653
• Cloud Provider Azure Pull Request 4184

Conclusion

These are the highlights of my contributions. I am ready to provide more details if necessary to support my application for community membership.

Both Approvers are part of the main project im involved with See the owners: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/karpenter/blob/main/OWNERS_ALIASES#L3

[jonathan-innis]

+1, @Bryce-Soghigian has been an active contributor to Azure/Karpenter and has been active in design discussion and contribution on kubernetes-sigs/karpenter

[tallaxes]

+1, @Bryce-Soghigian have been an active contributor to Karpenter provider for AKS and Cluster Autoscaler/AKS.

[jasonbraganza]

/assign

@Bryce-Soghigian, thank you for all your contributions to the project 🙂

I've created PR #4655 to add you to the Kubernetes(s) Org. Once that gets merged, you should get a membership invite notification.

Welcome to @kubernetes 🎉

[jackfrancis]

+1, thanks @Bryce-Soghigian for all your work on AKS karpenter!