Authors: Han Kang, David Ashpole, Damien Grisonnet
2022-10-28
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The presentation discusses the importance of observability in Kubernetes and the role of the SIG Instrumentation group in maintaining and improving the stability and quality of metrics.
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.
The presentation discusses the role of SIG Instrumentation in maintaining the logging and metrics infrastructure of Kubernetes and their initiatives to improve the quality of metrics and logging output.
SIG Instrumentation maintains the logging and metrics infrastructure of Kubernetes
They review issues and PRs related to metrics and Kubernetes
They are involved in features development and announcement related to observability
They maintain projects such as CubeSat Metrics, Metric Server, and Primitives Adapter
They are working on implementing structured logging to improve the quality of logging output
They are deprecating command line options in k-log related to log file handling
The importance of writing good documentation for open source projects and best practices for quick approval
Good documentation has a profound impact on the visibility, quality, and inclusivity of open source projects
Developers prefer documentation to contacting support or talking to an actual person
Most developers see documentation and its incompleteness or its lack of existence to be a huge problem in the community
The goal is to write inclusive, accessible, high-quality documentation in pull requests designed for quick approval
Best practices include structuring documentation using content templates, writing with clarity and technical accuracy, and avoiding common pitfalls that trap PRs in prolonged reviews
Writing in second person and focusing on the user's perspective is the most useful thing you can do
Specify what kind of review you want and set context for your reviewer