2023 Annual Report: SIG Cloud Provider

Current initiatives and Project Health

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

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

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

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

Alpha
- 2699 - Add webhook hosting to CCM. - v1.27
Beta
- 2395 - Removing In-Tree Cloud Providers - v1.29

Subprojects

New in 2023:

[provider-equinix-metal](https://git.k8s.io/community/#provider-equinix-metal) Continuing:
cloud-provider-extraction-migration
kubernetes-cloud-provider
provider-alibaba-cloud
provider-aws
provider-azure
provider-baiducloud
provider-gcp
provider-huaweicloud
provider-ibmcloud
provider-oci
provider-openstack
provider-vsphere

Working groups

Continuing:

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