annual-report-2023.md

2023 Annual Report: SIG Scheduling

Current initiatives and Project Health

1. What work did the SIG do this year that should be highlighted?

• Refine the scheduler’s APIs to provide more options that cater to diverse infrastructure and workload requirements. This includes continuing improvements on the PodTopologySpread API and applying the same approach to the PodAffinity API.
• Explore fine-grained (re-)queuing directives to enhance scheduling efficiency. This involves introducing new controls for developers to implement custom logic for determining how and when a pod should be (re-)queued.
• Stabilize core scheduling while enhancing its extensibility with external components.

2. Are there any areas and/or subprojects that your group needs help with (e.g. fewer than 2 active OWNERS)?

None.

3. Did you have community-wide updates in 2023 (e.g. KubeCon talks)?

Yes. SIG-Scheduling provided the following updates:

• KubeCon EU 2023
• KubeCon NA 2023

4. KEP work in 2023 (v1.27, v1.28, v1.29):

• Alpha

  • 3280 - Guarantee PodDisruptionBudget When Preemption Happens - v1.27
  • 3633 - Introduce MatchLabelKeys and MismatchLabelKeys to PodAffinity and PodAntiAffinity - v1.29

• Beta

  • 3521 - Pod Scheduling Readiness - v1.27
  • 3838 - Pod Mutable Scheduling Directives - 1.27
  • 3902 - Decouple TaintManager from NodeLifeCycleController - v1.29
  • 4247 - Per-plugin callback functions for efficient requeueing in the scheduling queue - v1.28

• Stable

  • 2926 - Mutable Node Scheduling Directives for Jobs - v1.27
  • 3243 - Respect PodTopologySpread after rolling upgrades - v1.29

Subprojects

New in 2023:

• kube-scheduler-wasm-extension Retired in 2023:
• kube-batch Continuing:
• cluster-capacity
• descheduler
• kube-scheduler-simulator
• kueue
• kwok
• scheduler
• scheduler-plugins

Working groups

Retired in 2023:

• Multitenancy Continuing:
• Batch
• Policy
• Structured Logging

Operational

Operational tasks in sig-governance.md:

• README.md reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• CONTRIBUTING.md reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• Other contributing docs (e.g. in devel dir or contributor guide) reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• Subprojects list and linked OWNERS files in sigs.yaml reviewed for accuracy and updated if needed
• SIG leaders (chairs, tech leads, and subproject leads) in sigs.yaml are accurate and active, and updated if needed
• Meeting notes and recordings for 2023 are linked from README.md and updated/uploaded if needed