Bryan & Camille
I'm travelling, so apologies for brevity.
1. I don't think it should matter that a project is "small" in scope,
in the sense of being "narrow". Do one thing and do it well etc
etc,... is an OK thing for some projects.
2. Being "new" is more of an issue. In order to focus on projects
that speak for themselves, while we are still a young organisation and
figuring out what matters, it is helpful to require some production
use, for instance.
3. Ultimately I think we need a way to recognise and perhaps help
projects that are important but novel. At ContainerCon, Ben Hindman,
Chris Aniszcxyk and I had a discussion about this that we hope to
share with the wider group.
TL;DR -- we want to propose a "Seed" stage for young projects. There
should be a frequent pruning out of Seed projects that are not
succeeding. From Seed, projects may graduate into the CNCF. And yes,
we should establish clearer criteria for leaving Incubation soon.
4. Bryan, on the creation of additional criteria in the process: yes,
we can certainly do this if it clarifies what we are trying to
achieve.
alexis
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Bryan Cantrill via cncf-toc
<cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io> wrote:
I agree with Camille -- while an admirable start (and a good name), CoreDNS
is just too new and too small: the project itself was only conceived of in
March, and by any metric (GH issues, contributors, commits, followers,
stars, releases, social media mentions) it remains nascent. So I would say
the answer to CoreDNS is not so much "no" as "not yet".
More generally, I would like each proposal to answer two (additional)
questions: "What do we bring to the CNCF?" and "What would we like the CNCF
to bring to us?" I feel that the CNCF projects under incubation have clear
answers to these questions -- but it is much less clear for me in the case
of CoreDNS...
- Bryan
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Camille Fournier via cncf-toc
<cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io> wrote:
-1. I think the project has great potential but is too early to be
included in the foundation. I would love to see it again once it has gone
through a full release cycle and gotten a little bit of adoption.
C
On Aug 26, 2016 8:09 AM, "Carlos Alonso via cncf-toc"
<cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io> wrote:
+1
From: <cncf-toc-bounces@lists.cncf.io> on behalf of Alexis Richardson via
cncf-toc <cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io>
Reply-To: Alexis Richardson <alexis@weave.works>
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 5:39 AM
To: Jonathan Boulle <jonathan.boulle@coreos.com>,
"cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io" <cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io>
Subject: Re: [cncf-toc] [VOTE] CoreDNS Project Proposal
+1
On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, 05:37 Jonathan Boulle via cncf-toc,
<cncf-toc@lists.cncf.io> wrote:
Fellow TOC members:
The CoreDNS team has iterated on their project proposal to a final
version after feedback and it's now time to vote.
Proposal is available here and also embedded below.
To kick things off, here's my +1.
thanks,
Jonathan
---
Name of project: CoreDNS
Description
CoreDNS is a fast, flexible and modern DNS server. Its performant and
flexible implementation allows CoreDNS to be easily extended to support
various data sources and to implement rich DNS service behaviors: for
example, response caching, query rewrite, load-balancing, zone transfer and
signing. CoreDNS is the successor of SkyDNS
(https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns), a DNS server that uses etcd as
its datastore backend. SkyDNS is widely used in cloud deployments, but lacks
the flexibility we envision for CoreDNS.
Sponsor / Advisor from TOC: Jonathan Boulle
Unique Identifier: coredns
License: Apache License v2.0
Source control repositories: https://github.com/miekg/coredns
Initial Committers:
Miek Gieben github: miekg
Michael Richmond github: mrichmon
github: splack
Felix Cantournet github: fcantournet
github: leelynne
Matt Layher github: mdlayher
Vasily Vailyev github: pixelbender
Infrastructure requirements (CI / CNCF Cluster): N/A
Issue tracker: https://github.com/miekg/coredns
Website: https://coredns.io
Release methodology and mechanics: As a young project, no method for
official releases has been established, and no official releases have been
made; the current rule is that the master branch is production-ready at all
times. A more formal release process is on its way, and may introduce
semantic versioning, but a final decision has not yet been made. Precompiled
binaries will be distributed by hooking into Caddy’s download website
(https://caddyserver.com/download), where "DNS" will be a Server Type
option.
Social media accounts: Twitter: @corednsio
Existing sponsorship: Infoblox contributing developer time to implement
CoreDNS→Kubernetes integration component.
Existing community: The community is small, but growing. Current number
of Twitter followers is 100+ (after a week of having the Twitter account).
By aligning ourselves with the Caddy community, we hope to leverage Caddy’s
popularity for CoreDNS. By positioning CoreDNS as a better SkyDNS, we hope
to entice existing users of SkyDNS to migrate to and embrace CoreDNS.
External Dependencies
CoreDNS depends on Caddy (https://caddyserver.com/). Caddy is a
framework that CoreDNS uses in two ways:
much of the CoreDNS code plugs into the framework to add DNS behavior.
CoreDNS provides a wrapper around the framework to provide a DNS-tuned
command-line interface.
Go dependencies:
Go package: mholt/caddy (ASLV2
https://github.com/mholt/caddy/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
Go package: beorn7/perks (MIT
https://github.com/beorn7/perks/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: coreos/etcd (ASLv2
https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: flynn/go-shlex (ASLv2
https://github.com/flynn-archive/go-shlex/blob/master/COPYING)
Go package: fsnotify/fsnotify (BSD
https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: golang/protobuf (BSD
https://github.com/golang/protobuf/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: hashicorp/go-syslog (MIT
https://github.com/hashicorp/go-syslog/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions
(ASLv2https://github.com/matttproud/golang_protobuf_extensions/blob/master/LICENSE
Go package: miekg/dns (BSD
https://github.com/miekg/dns/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: patrickmn/go-cache (MIT
https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: prometheus/client_golang
(ASLv2https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: prometheus/client_model
(ASLv2https://github.com/prometheus/client_model/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: prometheus/common (ASLv2
https://github.com/prometheus/common/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: prometheus/procfs (ASLv2
https://github.com/prometheus/procfs/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: ugorji/go (MIT
https://github.com/ugorji/go/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: xenolf/lego (MIT
https://github.com/xenolf/lego/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: golang/x/crypto (BSD
https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: golang/x/net (BSD
https://github.com/golang/net/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: golang/x/sys (BSD
https://github.com/golang/sys/blob/master/LICENSE)
Go package: natefinch/lumberjack.v2 (MIT
https://github.com/natefinch/lumberjack/blob/v2.0/LICENSE)
Go package: square/go-jose.v1 (ASLv2
https://github.com/square/go-jose/blob/master/LICENSE)
Kubernetes (for CoreDNS → Kubernetes integration)
(ASLv2https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/LICENSE)
Statement on alignment with CNCF mission:
CoreDNS is a focused, lightweight DNS server. A microservice philosophy
guides the internal design of CoreDNS. Individual DNS functions are provided
by discrete, composable plugins that are enabled via runtime configuration.
CoreDNS can be thought of as a DNS protocol head that can be configured to
front various backend data sources. A flexible DNS server is a necessary
component to provide “Naming and Discovery” services to containers running
in the CNCF distributed system services environment.
Comparison with KubeDNS:
The incumbent DNS service for Kubernetes, “kubedns”, consists of four
components: * etcd provides a DNS data cache, * kube2sky provides the
mechanism for updating the etcd data cache, * skydns provides the DNS
service based on the data cached in etcd, * exechealthz provides
health-check status.
Running CoreDNS with Kubernetes requires only the coredns component.
CoreDNS does not require a separate data cache or update service. CoreDNS
includes an optional health-check “middleware” component that can be used
for service monitoring.
CoreDNS provides a cleaner, more extensible codebase as compared to
SkyDNS. (Both SkyDNS and CoreDNS were authored primarily by Miek Gieben.)
CoreDNS is currently being extended to operate directly with Kubernetes
to access the service data. This “middleware” implementation for CoreDNS
provides the same client-facing behavior as KubeDNS. The pipeline-based
design of CoreDNS allows easy extension to use any container orchestrator as
a DNS data source.
With the Kubernetes middleware, CoreDNS can be considered as an
alternative to SkyDNS with lower runtime complexity. Performance testing to
compare against SkyDNS is pending.
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