Add a KEP for artifact management.

keps/sig-contributor-experience/20190121-artifact-management.md

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+---
+kep-number: 34
+title: Kubernetes Community Artifact Serving
+authors:
+  - "@brendandburns"
+owning-sig: sig-contributor-experience
+participating-sigs:
+reviewers:
+  - "@justinsb"
+  - "@dims"
+approvers:
+  - "@dims"
+editor: "@brendandburns"
+creation-date: 2019-01-23
+last-updated: 2019-01-23
+status: provisional
+see-also:
+---
+
+# Kubernetes Artifact Management
+
+1. **Fill out the "overview" sections.**
+  This includes the Summary and Motivation sections.
+  These should be easy if you've preflighted the idea of the KEP with the appropriate SIG.
+1. **Create a PR.**
+  Assign it to folks in the SIG that are sponsoring this process.
+1. **Merge early.**
+  Avoid getting hung up on specific details and instead aim to get the goal of the KEP merged quickly.
+  The best way to do this is to just start with the "Overview" sections and fill out details incrementally in follow on PRs.
+  View anything marked as a `provisional` as a working document and subject to change.
+  Aim for single topic PRs to keep discussions focused.
+  If you disagree with what is already in a document, open a new PR with suggested changes.
+
+The canonical place for the latest set of instructions (and the likely source of this file) is [here](/keps/0000-kep-template.md).
+
+The `Metadata` section above is intended to support the creation of tooling around the KEP process.
+This will be a YAML section that is fenced as a code block.
+See the KEP process for details on each of these items.
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+A table of contents is helpful for quickly jumping to sections of a KEP and for highlighting any additional information provided beyond the standard KEP template.
+[Tools for generating][] a table of contents from markdown are available.
+
+* [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
+* [Summary](#summary)
+* [Motivation](#motivation)
+    * [Goals](#goals)
+    * [Non-Goals](#non-goals)
+* [Proposal](#proposal)
+    * [User Stories [optional]](#user-stories-optional)
+      * [Story 1](#story-1)
+      * [Story 2](#story-2)
+    * [Implementation Details/Notes/Constraints [optional]](#implementation-detailsnotesconstraints-optional)
+    * [Risks and Mitigations](#risks-and-mitigations)
+* [Graduation Criteria](#graduation-criteria)
+* [Implementation History](#implementation-history)
+* [Drawbacks [optional]](#drawbacks-optional)
+* [Alternatives [optional]](#alternatives-optional)
+
+[Tools for generating]: https://github.com/ekalinin/github-markdown-toc
+
+## Summary
+This document describes how official artifacts (Container Images, Binaries) for the Kubernetes
+project are managed and distributed.
+
+
+## Motivation
+
+The motivation for this KEP is to describe a process by which artifacts (container images, binaries)
+can be distributed by the community. Currently the process by which images is both ad-hoc in nature
+and limited to an arbitrary set of people who have the keys to the relevant repositories. Standardize
+access will ensure that people around the world have access to the same artifacts by the same names
+and that anyone in the project is capable (if given the right authority) to distribute images.
+
+### Goals
+
+The goals of this process are to enable:
+  * Anyone in the community (with the right permissions) to manage the distribution of Kubernetes images and binaries.
+  * Fast, cost-efficient access to artifacts around the world through appropriate mirrors and distribution
+
+This KEP will have succeeded when artifacts are all managed in the same manner and anyone in the community
+(with the right permissions) can manage these artifacts.
+
+### Non-Goals
+
+The actual process and tooling for promoting images, building packages or otherwise assembling artifacts
+is beyond the scope of this KEP. This KEP deals with the infrastructure for serving these things via
+HTTP as well as a generic description of how promotion will be accomplished.
+
+## Proposal
+
+The top level design will be to set up a global redirector HTTP service (`artifacts.k8s.io`) 
+which knows how to serve HTTP and redirect requests to an appropriate mirror. This redirector
+will serve both binary and container image downloads. For container images, the HTTP redirector
+will redirect users to the appropriate geo-located container registry. For binary artifacts, 
+the HTTP redirector will redirect to appropriate geo-located storage buckets.
+
+To facilitate artifact promotion, each project, as necessary, will be given access to a
+project staging area relevant to their particular artifacts (either storage bucket or image 
+registry). Each project is free to manage their assets in the staging area however they feel
+it is best to do so. However, end-users are not expected to access artifacts through the
+staging area.
+
+For each artifact, there will be a configuration file checked into this repository. When a
+project wants to promote an image, they will file a PR in this repository to update their
+image promotion configuration to promote an artifact from staging to production. Once this
+PR is approved, automation that is running in the k8s project infrastructure (e.g. 
+https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-container-image-promoter) will pick up this new
+configuration file and copy the relevant bits out to the production serving locations.
+
+Importantly, if a project needs to roll-back or remove an artifact, the same process will
+occur, so that the promotion tool needs to be capable of deleting images and artifacts as
+well as promoting them.
+
+## Graduation Criteria
+
+This KEP will graduate when the process is implemented and has been sucessfully used to
+manage the images for a Kubernetes release.
+
+## Implementation History
+
+None yet.
+