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title: " Introducing the Kubernetes OpenStack Special Interest Group "
date: 2016-04-22
slug: introducing-kubernetes-openstack-sig
url: /blog/2016/04/Introducing-Kubernetes-Openstack-Sig
author: >
  Steve Gordon (Red Hat),
  Ihor Dvoretskyi (Mirantis)
---
_**Editor's note:**  This week we’re featuring [Kubernetes Special Interest Groups](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/wiki/Special-Interest-Groups-(SIGs)); Today’s post is by the SIG-OpenStack team about their mission to facilitate ideas between the OpenStack and Kubernetes communities. _  



The community around the Kubernetes project includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the purposes of facilitating focused discussions relating to important subtopics between interested contributors. Today we would like to highlight the [Kubernetes OpenStack SIG](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/wiki/SIG-Openstack) focused on the interaction between [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io/) and [OpenStack](http://www.openstack.org/), the Open Source cloud computing platform.  

There are two high level scenarios that are being discussed in the SIG:  


- Using Kubernetes to manage containerized workloads running on top of OpenStack
- Using Kubernetes to manage containerized OpenStack services themselves  

In both cases the intent is to help facilitate the inter-pollination of ideas between the growing Kubernetes and OpenStack communities. The OpenStack community itself includes a number of projects broadly aimed at assisting with both of these use cases including:  


- [Kolla](http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/kolla.html) - Provides OpenStack service containers and deployment tooling for operating OpenStack clouds.
- [Kuryr](http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/kuryr.html) - Provides bridges between container networking/storage framework models and OpenStack infrastructure services.
- [Magnum](http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/magnum.html) - Provides containers as a service for OpenStack.
- [Murano](http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/murano.html) - Provides an Application Catalog service for OpenStack including support for Kubernetes itself, and for containerized applications, managed by Kubernetes.  


There are also a number of example templates available to assist with using the OpenStack Orchestration service ([Heat](http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/heat.html)) to deploy and configure either Kubernetes itself or offerings built around Kubernetes such as [OpenShift](https://github.com/redhat-openstack/openshift-on-openstack/). While each of these approaches has their own pros and cons the common theme is the ability, or potential ability, to use Kubernetes and where available leverage deeper integration between it and the OpenStack services themselves. 
Title: Introducing the Kubernetes OpenStack Special Interest Group (SIG)
Summary
The Kubernetes OpenStack SIG aims to foster collaboration between the Kubernetes and OpenStack communities. It focuses on two main scenarios: using Kubernetes to manage containerized workloads on OpenStack and using Kubernetes to manage containerized OpenStack services. Several OpenStack projects like Kolla, Kuryr, Magnum, and Murano contribute to these use cases, along with Heat templates for deploying Kubernetes and related offerings on OpenStack.