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IAM
The following kubernetes.io Google Groups exist to grant Release Managers access to K8s Infra GCP resources.
Mail to the groups below will be ignored. Please instead use the contact groups listed on the Release Managers page.
k8s-infra-release-admins- Release Engineering subproject ownersk8s-infra-release-editors- Release Managersk8s-infra-release-viewers- Release Manager Associates
Membership and permissions for each group is defined in kubernetes/k8s.io.
Projects
Kubernetes Releases
| Name | Status | Tenancy | Ownership | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
kubernetes-release-test | Active | Release Engineering | Staging project for Kubernetes releases (Google) | |
google-containers | Active | Production project for Kubernetes releases (Google) | ||
k8s-staging-kubernetes | Active | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Staging project for Kubernetes releases (K8s Infra) |
k8s-release-test-prod | Active | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Test production project for Kubernetes releases (K8s Infra) |
k8s-artifacts-prod | Active | Kubernetes | WG K8s Infra | Production project for Kubernetes Community (K8s Infra) |
Release Engineering
| Name | Status | Tenancy | Ownership | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
k8s-infra-sig-release-prototype | Deprecated | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Test staging project for Release Engineering (K8s Infra) |
k8s-staging-release-test | Deprecated | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Test staging project for Release Engineering (K8s Infra) |
k8s-staging-releng | Active | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Staging project for Release Engineering tooling (K8s Infra) |
k8s-releng-prod | Active | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Production project for Release Engineering (K8s Infra) |
k8s-staging-releng-test | Deprecated | Kubernetes | Release Engineering | Staging project for Release Engineering build images (K8s Infra) |
KMS
Release Engineering GCP projects often require access to sensitive credentials to execute work.
An example is the k8s-release-robot's GitHub token, used to commit, push, and create GitHub releases for kubernetes/kubernetes.
To facilitate this on K8s Infra, we use the k8s-releng-prod project to store KMS assets.
Decryption access to specific keyrings within the k8s-releng-prod project is then delegated out to the other Release Engineering GCP projects by members of the k8s-infra-release-admins group.
To date, the following projects have access to decrypt KMS assets:
k8s-staging-kubernetesk8s-staging-releng