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• Capacity planning requires up-to-date and fresh data, and aggregation at collection time to reduce scope.
• The project provides a tool for capacity planning that does not require knowledge of prompt URL.
• The metrics framework provides stability levels to prevent breaking changes and automation to prevent users from making breaking changes.
• Structured logging in JSON format is easier to query and analyze than text-based logging.
• Contextual logging allows for attaching context and data to log lines for better analysis and correlation with tracing.
• The structured logging working group is actively working on migrating the code base to structured and contextual logging.

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• The working group has published a white paper that outlines the projects, problems, and gaps in Kubernetes, as well as the components being developed and the directions being taken.
• The group has also released an annual report that documents the achievements in the past year and the focus for the future.
• The application backup in Kubernetes context consists of two parts: the Kubernetes resources that shape the application and the data backup stored on persistent volumes.
• The group is developing components to support the entire application backup workflow, including volume model convention, container notifier, and consistent group snapshot.
• The group is also working on a Kubernetes API that defines stateful applications and how to take a snapshot backup of those applications.
• The group has made progress in developing the components, with some moving to Alpha and Beta releases.
• The group encourages participation through bi-weekly meetings, a mailing list, and a Slack channel.

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• The Kubernetes Special Interest Group for Contributor Experience manages sub-projects such as community, community management, documentation, Dev stats, elections, events, and GitHub management.
• The group also focuses on mentoring and Slack infrastructure.
• The annual report generator tool creates empty annual report templates and issue templates for the sub-projects.
• Automation efforts were made to generate lists of community enhancement proposals for the annual report templates.
• The annual reports serve as a way to gauge the health of sub-projects and to identify areas where help is needed.
• The reports can also be used to convince employers to allow contributions to Kubernetes.
• The group is in need of help in the mentoring and elections sub-projects.

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• The Sig Multi-Cluster group focuses on specific, tangible problems in multi-cluster deployments
• The group prioritizes keeping multi-cluster consistent with single cluster
• Current projects include multi-cluster networking, controllers and leader election, work API, and staple set slices
• The group aims to find the most essential problems to solve in the areas of multi-cluster registries and control planes
• The concept of a cluster set and namespace sameness are core concepts in the group's solutions

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• Major enhancements for authentication and authorization
• Pod Security
• KMS encryption
• Structured configuration
• Reduction of legacy service account token attack surface area
• Certificate signing request duration control
• How to set up authentication and credentials for paths
• Different levels of specificity for credentials

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• The SIG Instrumentation group is responsible for maintaining and improving the stability and quality of metrics in Kubernetes.
• Observability is important in Kubernetes to identify and fix issues related to latency regression and other problems.
• The group is working on building an automated documentation to help users understand and use metrics more effectively.
• The group is also working on adding a beta stage to the stability framework to improve expressiveness.
• The group is actively seeking new contributors and offers various ways to contribute, including code reviews and documentation.
• The group maintains several sub-projects, including CubeSat Metrics, Metric Server, and Primitives Adapter, which are used for auto-scaling and adapting queries.
• The group also maintains the logging infrastructure in Kubernetes.

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• The Kubernetes community manages various sub-projects such as automation of the pipeline from Zoom to YouTube, managing the end-user focused community forum, and reaching out to contributors through various communication platforms
• The community also focuses on maintaining code quality and managing GitHub requests through a team of moderators and admins
• Mentoring programs are crucial for building up new contributors and scaling back some programs due to resource constraints
• Shadow programs are adopted by various groups to train individuals for specific roles within the project

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• Cluster API uses Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters
• The project aims to make managing Kubernetes clusters easier
• The team is working on optimizing bootstrap times
• They are exploring ways to downsize the footprint of Cluster API in limited environments