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title: Annual Report Summary 2021 - Highlights

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# Annual Report Summary 2021 - Highlights

## Growth 

Focus on new contributors, increased SIGs and participation


>Thanks to all of you, our community keeps growing! With 10000 new contributors, new SIGs and much more - read the full 2021 report https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md


## Features

Hard to choose, since if they are here it's because they are already relevant enough and it's arleady a great summary. So, something like a 1:1 feature/tweet could work, trying to focus on why it's important more than on the technical complexity,

If instead of a 1:1 it's best to do a more general tweet, something like this could be a starting point:

> In 2021 we had a lot of improvements to Kubernetes: find some of the ones that graduated and improved the most in the 2021 Annual Report https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md

### CSI Plugins on Windows Nodes



### Generic ephemeral inline volumes

### IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack

### Metrics stability framework

### Client credential plugins

### Kubetest2

### CSI Migration


## Governance & Community involvement

The elections is an important point, as is the transparency of the community meetings.

> Kubernetes maturity is not in code alone: in 2021 we have adopted Elekto https://elekto.dev/ for secure, transparent, gitops-based elections. Full report https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md

> Community involvement in Kubernetes is about trust and transparency. In 2021 we rebooted our Monthly Community Meetings https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69nYSiGNLP1pkHsbPjzAewvMgGUpkCnJ to include discussions. Full report https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md

> Improved contributor involvement is a key goal of the project. Check how SIG Docs and SIG CLI improved the contributor experience and leadership transition strategy in the 2021 report https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md

## Security

> In 2021 we saw sustained efforts to improve supply-chain security in Kubernetes: in the Anual Report read how SIG Release, SIG Auth and SIG Security worked steadily on it https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md

> Security improvements in Kubernetes touched every aspect of it, including  end-user security documentation, how pod credentials are treated an how certificates are managed. Read the details on the anual report https://github.com/kubernetes/steering/blob/main/reports/summary-2021.md

## Build process


## Windows support


## Themes/Trends

### Quality

### Individual contributor roles

### Improve documentation

### Burnout

## Growth areas

### Reviewers needed


### Decrease in dedicated contributors

## Help Wanted & Inititatives

Either use a 1 SIG Help+Initiatives tweet, or one single one for all?

> Do you know what were the areas that Kubernetes SIGs and Work Groups identified as needing help? Read the 2021 Anual Report and find what you can do to join the community!


> What are the main improvements and enhancements done in 2021? The Kubernetes Anual Report for 2021 summarises them by SIG, take a look!




### SIG API Machinery

### SIG Apps

### SIG Auth

### SIG CLI

### SIG Cloud Provider

### SIG ContribEx

### SIG Docs

### SIG Instrumentation

### SIG K8s Infra

### SIG Release

### SIG Scalability

### SIG Scheduling

### SIG Storage

### SIG Testing

### SIG Windows






