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Its not a secret that Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has multiple projects with over 138K+ contributors. The landscape page says the projects have over 2.8 Million GitHub stars at the time of writing.
There are a wide variety of categories of projects under these categories:
- Application definition and development
- Orchestration and management (which is where famous Kubernetes resides)
- Runtime
- Provisioning
- Special
Across these categories, projects are classified based on their status of maturity and adherence to CNCF project requirements– Graduated, Incubating, Sandbox and Archived. At the time of writing there are 16 graduated projects, 24 incubating projects and 1468 member products/projects!
Question is how can anyone correlate these projects based on engineering domains? If I am interested in security, what projects should I look at or more broadly what are the set of security aspects that my project should care about?
In order to help address some of the cross-project concerns, interests, queries and resolutions, CNCF has established TAGs to help everyone.
What are CNCF TAGs?
Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) provide technical guidance across a cross section of projects in CNCF landscape pertaining to a specific domain. TAGs broadly help along these ways:
- Help coordinate needs and interests of project participants, end users
- Help guide brand new projects correlate with other existing projects in helping craft their proposal to be a CNCF Sandbox project
- Help review existing CNCF projects before moving to be an incubating project
- Help in addressing technical questions, concerns or facilitate open ended conversations across cross project participants
TAGs are lead by technical experts in relevant domains and TAGs report to Technical Oversight Committee of CNCF.
TAGs are a relatively new name as these were once called CNCF Special Interest Groups (SIG) in order to avoid confusion of understanding the term SIG with individual CNCF…
