$PROJECT Domain Technical Review
April 28, 2025 · View on GitHub
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Info: The Domain Technical Review template follows the General Technical Review questions from the context of the reviewing Technical Advisory Group (TAG) domain. A project may be requested to have multiple domain reviews. For more information, please review How TAGs Help with Project Reviews and Engagement.
Depending on CNCF maturity application level, not every section may be answered by the reviewing TAG and the TAG review should take no more than an hour of a reviewer's time to complete.
Project Application Level: Sandbox/Incubation/Graduation
Reviewing TAG:
TAG Reviewer(s):
Review Materials:
Review Materials URL:
Review Materials Date: DD-MMM-YYYY
Community and Growth
Please refer to the TAG Contributor Strategy summary on the project issue. If there are additional considerations TAG Contributor Strategy is not aware of, please include those here.
Day 0 Assessment - Planning Phase
Please include key highlights of the project’s scope, usability, design, installation and security.
- What gap(s) in the ecosystem does this project fulfill?
- What, if anything, could make this project better?
- Are there any glaring gaps in the design process that the project should consider reviewing?
Day 1 Assessment - Installation and Deployment Phase
Please include key highlights of the project’s installation and deployment:
- Has this project considered what the project’s installation and configuration looks like?
- Has the project thought through enablement, rollback, rollout and upgrade planning?
- Are there any gaps the project’s maintainers should consider to make this project more production ready?
Day 2 Assessment - Operations Phase
Please include key highlights of the project’s day-to-day operations:
- Has this project considered adopter scalability and reliability requirements?
- Has this project considered how adopters should observe project resources and workloads?
- Has this project thought through dependencies and lifecycle policies or how to troubleshoot any component failures?
- Are there any gaps the project should consider?
Cloud Native Summary
Please include key current collaboration as well as potential collaboration opportunities in the cloud native ecosystem, including: TAGs, Working Groups, Kubernetes SIGs, other CNCF projects, and other Foundation projects.
TAG Recommendations
TAG Recommendation to $Project
Please include steps the project is recommended to take from the TAG’s review of the presentation or General Technical Review questions. Include any gaps or areas of concern along with brief recommendations on how to overcome them.
TAG Recommendation to TOC
Recommendation: yes/no
Summary: Please briefly outline why or why not the TAG leads recommend this project to be admitted to CNCF Sandbox or move levels within the CNCF.