Explore the Cloud Provider Special Interest Group (SIG) in this informative conference talk presented by Chris Hoge from OpenStack Foundation and Steve Wong from VMware. Gain insights into the SIG's mission of ensuring a consistent and high-quality user experience across cloud providers while promoting equal empowerment for new vendors supporting Kubernetes. Delve into the historical context, current status, and future direction of ongoing efforts, including the transition of individual provider SIGs to sub-projects and the extraction of provider code from the main Kubernetes repository. Learn about the Cloud Controller Manager, building custom cloud providers, cloud provider interfaces, and implementation details. Discover how to join the SIG and contribute to the development of Kubernetes in a way that fosters shared privileges and responsibilities among providers.