CNCF Mentoring Initiatives

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) participates in a variety of mentoring programs. CNCF is a great place to spend a summer learning, coding, participating and contributing. We are an exciting open source foundation with a vibrant community of projects, and we look forward to your application and your project ideas!

Organization Admins

If you need help with anything mentoring at CNCF, you can file an issue at this repo or reach out to us at the #mentoring channel on CNCF Slack.

Organization admins for specific mentorship programs are listed on the programs respective pages.

Communication

Please reach out to us on the #mentoring channel on the CNCF slack. Please don't use DMs unless strictly necessary as doing so both has the potential of overwhelming project maintainers and others with similar questions lose the benefit of public discussion.

It's best if you use a public communication channel whenever possible; however, if you need to communicate in private, please feel free to send the admins a note via [email protected] (please use the public channels for any project-related discussion).

Success Stories

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Mentoring Programs

Program Purpose Details and historical data LFX Mentorship (ex-CommunityBridge) Mentoring initiative by the Linux Foundation lfx-mentorship Google Summer of Code Mentoring program for the students summerofcode Google Season of Docs Mentoring initiative for the technical writers seasonofdocs Outreachy Mentoring initiative for the communities traditionally underrepresented in tech outreachy CROSS The CROSS Research Experiences program provides support for undergraduate and graduate students contributing to CROSS incubator projects. CROSS

Program Statistics

Year Program Internships Total (per year) 2021 LFX Mentorship (CommunityBridge) 45 64 (in progress)

GSoC 17

GSoD 1

Outreachy 1

2020 LFX Mentorship (CommunityBridge) 50 71

GSoC 16

GSoD 4

Outreachy 1

2019 CommunityBridge 4 20

GSoC 15

Outreachy 1

2018 GSoC 7 8

Outreachy 1

2017 GSoC 6 8

Outreachy 2

LFX (ex-Community Bridge)

Spring

Mentoring Project Mentor Name(s) Mentee Name CNCF - Kubernetes SIG Storage: Kubernetes working group for CSI driver Andy Zhang Manohar Reddy CNCF - Kubernetes WG Policy: CIS Benchmarks Policy Report Jim Bugwadia Mritunjay Sharma CNCF - Kubernetes SIG Architecture: Develop tools for evaluating dependency updates to Kubernetes Davanum Srinivas Arsh Sharma CNCF - Keptn: Improve Prometheus integration and exposure of Prometheus metrics Jürgen Etzlstorfer Raj Babu Das CNCF - Keptn: Generate service skeleton via CLI Hemanth Krishna Hemanth Krishna CNCF - Kyverno: Monitor Kyverno with Prometheus Yashvardhan Kukreja Yashvardhan Kukreja CNCF - Kyverno: Integration of Kyverno with Litmus for chaos testing Shuting Zhao, Jim Bugwadia Mahfuza Mohona CNCF - OpenTelemetry: Work through OpenTelemetry User Research Documentation and Implement Fixes Bob Strecansky Ndubuisi Onyemenam CNCF - TiKV: Coprocessor plugin Andy Lok Andreas Zimmerer CNCF - Tremor: Support for Syslog Protocol Anup Dhamala, Matthias Wahl Nupur Agrawal CNCF - Tremor: Continuous benchmarking and benchmarking infrastructure Darach Ennis, Anup Dhamala Akshat Agarwal CNCF - Tremor: Property-based tests for tremor-script Heinz Gies, Matthias Wahl Rohit Dandamudi CNCF - Tremor: Google Cloud Connector Heinz Gies, Darach Ennis Jigyasa Khaneja CNCF - Chaos Mesh: Chaos Engineering as a Service Xiang Wang Shivansh Saini CNCF - Chaos Mesh: Enriching AWS chaos Xiang Wang, Zhiqiang Zhou Debabrata Panigrahi CNCF - KubeEdge: Design more tests for specific scenarios of edge computing Fisher Xu Shubham Gupta CNCF - KubeEdge: Integration and verification of third-party CNI/CSI based on the edge side list-wat Fisher Xu Avinash Mutham CNCF - Thanos: Multi-Tenant Instrumentation for Thanos operations Yash Sharma, Kemal Akkoyun Abhishek Singh Chauhan CNCF - Thanos: Stateless Ruler Lucas Servén Marín, Bartlomiej Płotka Michael Okoko CNCF - Thanos: Vertical Block Sharding Bartlomiej Płotka, Kemal Akkoyun Biswajit Ghosh CNCF - Thanos: gRPC Exemplars API Prem Saraswat, Lucas Servén Marín Hitanshu Mehta CNCF - Crossplane: Automated end-to-end testing infrastructure Jared Watts, Daniel Mangum Rahul Grover CNCF - OpenEBS: An easy to use command-line interface (CLI) for OpenEBS Kiran Mova Parth Shandilya CNCF - OpenEBS: Grafana Dashboards for monitoring OpenEBS Kiran Mova Rahul Agrawal CNCF - Volcano: System Stability Enhancement Lei Wu Yuchen Cheng CNCF - LitmusChaos: Add event & alerts infrastructure to the litmus portal Soumya Ghosh Dastidar Shubham Kumar CNCF - SPIFFE/SPIRE: Design and implement a health/status subsystem in SPIRE Evan Gilman, Andrew Harding Sachin Singh CNCF - Cloud Native Buildpacks: Design and implement Buildpack Registry Search Joe Kutner Aswin Timalsina

Q3-Q4

CNCF Projects Community Bridge Project Mentor Name(s) Mentee Name Blog post Chaos Mesh Create a debug information collector for Chaos Mesh Keao Yang, Cwen Yin Shuyang Wu

Keptn Keptn CLI to support multiple contexts like KUBECONFIG Jürgen Etzlstorfer, Christian Kreuzberger, Andreas Grimmer Ankit Jain CommunityBridge Mentee with Keptn KubeEdge Support list-watch from edgecore for applications on the edge Kevin Wang, Fei Xu Rachel Shao

KubeEdge Use device API both on cloud and edge Kevin Wang, Fei Xu Jinyong Mao

KubeEdge Add EdgeGateway as the ingress gateway on Edge Kevin Wang, Fei Xu Zhiling Feng

Kubernetes Create Application for Elections Authenticated by External Oauth Josh Berkus, Marky Jackson Manish Sahani

Kubernetes Kubernetes working group for CSI driver Andy Zhang Mayank Shah

Open Service Mesh Support for WebAssembly filters Lee Calcote, Dev Kalra Kush Trivedi

OpenTelemetry ETW exporter Max Golovanov Mishal Shah

OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry to FluentBit exporter Sergey Kanzhelev Aditya Prajapati

Prometheus Add various post processing steps in query API after PromQL execution Bartek Plotka, Ganesh Vernekar Gayathri Venkatesh

Service Mesh Interface Standards validation for OSM and Kuma Lee Calcote, Abishek Kumar Dhruv Patel

Thanos Receive: Hashring Update Improvements Lucas Servén Marín, Frederic Branczyk T.S.S. Chandana

Thanos UI Enhancements Kemal Akkoyun, Bartek Plotka Raphael Noriode

TiKV Support ENUM / SET push down for TiKV Coprocessor Chi Zhang Hao Ding

TiKV Support rbac control for data accessing in TiKV Song Gao, Yutong Liang Yanning Chen

Volcano Implement hierarchy queue to better support fair-share Lei Wu Wangqian Qian

Volcano Customize scheduling algorithms per queue Leibo Wang Srestha Srivastava

Volcano Implement specific job types to improve usability Leibo Wang Liang Tang

CNCF Projects Community Bridge Project Mentor Name(s) Mentee Name Blog post Argo Enhancing Developer Experience with Open Application Model Deployment using Argo CD Ken Owens Darshan Chaudhary

CoreDNS External health check and orchestration of CoreDNS in Kubernetes clusters Yong Tang Jayesh Sharma

Envoy Improve Envoy observability for http module Kateryna Nezdolii Ranjith Kumar Adha

Fluentd Fluent Bit Monitoring Web UI Eduardo Silva Shivam Singhal

KubeEdge Support metrics-server in cloud Fei Xu Tiecheng Shen

KubeEdge Add certificate rotation for edge node Fei Xu Jiejie Xu

KubeVirt Kernel boot Fabian Deutsch, Daniel Belenky, Daniel Hiller Hritvi Bhandari

KubeVirt Improve Observability Fabian Deutsch, Daniel Belenky, Daniel Hiller Arthur Silva Sens My first real experience with Open Source Kubernetes Multi-tenancy benchmark project Tasha Drew Divya Rani

Kubernetes Kubernetes working group for CSI driver Andy Zhang Animesh Kumar

Linkerd Service Topologies Thomas Rampelberg

Open Policy Agent OPA - MongoDB query translator Ash Narkar Vineeth Pothulapati

OpenEBS New storage backend using raw disk images Kiran Mova Mehran Kholdi

OpenEBS A easy to use command-line interface (CLI) for OpenEBS. Kiran Mova Harsh Thakur Crossing the Community Bridge Prometheus Persist Retroactive Rule Reevaluations Callum Styan, Bartlomiej Plotka Jessica Grebenschikov

Prometheus Remote Write WAL Pointer + Other Improvements Callum Styan, Bartlomiej Plotka Nicole Jingco

Service Mesh Interface SMI Conformance with Meshery Lee Calcote, Vinayak Shinde Kanishkar J

Thanos Per Request Query Tracking and Limiting Povilas Versockas, Bartlomiej Plotka, Kemal Akkoyun Yash Sharma

Thanos Complete Katacoda tutorials Povilas Versockas, Bartlomiej Plotka, Kemal Akkoyun Sonia Singla Get the most out of Community Bridge Program Thanos Versioned Website Docs Povilas Versockas, Bartlomiej Plotka, Kemal Akkoyun Uchechukwu Obasi

TiKV Full Chunk-based Computing Tianyi Zhuang, Wish Shi Chi Zhang My CommunityBridge Mentorship with TiKV Project CNCF Projects Community Bridge Project Mentor Name(s) Mentee Name Cortex Storage Plugins Goutham Veeramachaneni Vineeth Pothulapati Fluentd Extending internal metrics support on Fluent Bit and improving Fluent Bit usability / user-experience Eduardo Silva and Masoud Koleini Atibhi Agarwal Kubernetes Integrating the Tenant Operator with the hierarchical namespace controller Tasha Drew and Fei Guo Shivani Singhal Kubernetes Kubernetes working group for CSI driver Andy Zhang Ji'an Liu OpenTelemetry Implementing zPages for OpenTelemetry, integrations registry, libraries compatibility tests, and OpenTelemetry C# integration with Azure, Amazon, and Google Cloud metadata services Sergey Kanzhelev Harnidh Kaur Prometheus Various React UI improvements and filtering label values API with matchers Krasi Georgiev and Julius Volz Boyko Lalov Thanos Improving read write coordination for object storage and end to end benchmarking tests on demand through CI Bartek Plotka and Giedrius Statkevičius Khyati Soneji

Pilot

CNCF Projects Community Bridge Project Mentor Name(s) Mentee Name Kubernetes Integrating kube-batch with pytorch-operator/mxnet-operator Klaus Ma Suryavanshi Virendrasingh Kubernetes CSI Driver for Azure Disk Xia Zhang Priyanshu Khandelwal CoreDNS Support Google Cloud DNS backend Yong Tang Palash Nigam CNCF Projects GSoC Project Mentor Name(s) Mentee Name Blog post (optional) CoreDNS Anomaly Detection of CoreDNS Server through Machine Learning Yong Tang Chanakya Ekbote

Cortex Selectively disable Indexing of labels Bryan Boreham, Ryan Zhang JayBatra

Envoy Distributed Load Testing of Envoy Data Planes Ryan Zhang, Lee Calcote, Shivay Lamba Kush Trivedi

in-toto Port runlib into in-toto golang Santiago Torres-Arias, Justin Cappos, Lukas Pühringer Christian Rebischke link Kubernetes Kubernetes Multitenancy Working Group: Benchmarks tashimi, Ryan Bezdicek, Jim Bugwadia Anuj Sharma

Kubernetes Do resource delivery around Kubernetes Jianbo Sun Wangqian Qian

Kubernetes Cluster Addons: Package all things! Justin Santa Barbara Somtochi Onyekwere link Prometheus Develop local cluster provider for test-infa/prombench and extending test-infra Hrishikesh Barman Raj Babu Das

Prometheus Prometheus: Extending promtool for formatting PromQL expressions and YAML structure in rules files Ganesh Vernekar, Tobias Guggenmos Harkishen Singh

Prometheus Prometheus - Running prombench on EKS and update dashboards Hrishikesh Barman Drumil Patel

Rook Rewrite NFS Operator to use controller-runtime Ashish Ranjan, jbw976, Rohan Ahmad Nurus Shobah

Service Mesh Interface SMI Conformance Tool Lee Calcote Naveen Jain

Thanos Enriching and Extending Thanos UIs with React for Awesome User Experience Bartek Plotka, Squat, Giedrius Statkevičius Prem Saraswat

Thanos Per Series Metric Retention - Thanos Matthias Loibl, Bartek Plotka Harshitha Chowdary Thota

TiKV Cloud Native KV-service Yi Wu Devdutt Shenoi

TiKV Versioned rawKV Yi Wu Hyungsuk Kang

CNCF Projects GSoC Project Mentor(s) Mentee CoreDNS Support Source IP Based Query Block/Allow in CoreDNS Yong Tang An Xiao Envoy/Linkerd Multi-mesh performance benchmark tool Lee Calcote Shahriyar Mammadov Falco Falco engine performance analysis and optimization Loris Degioanni,Lorenzo Fontana,Leonardo Di Donato Mattia Lavacca Kubernetes Add Plugin Mechanism to the Dashboard Marcin Maciaszczyk, Sebastian Florek Ajat Prabha Kubernetes Add Support for Custom Resource Definitions to the Dashboard Marcin Maciaszczyk, Sebastian Florek Elijah Oyekunle Kubernetes Implement volume snapshotting support into the external Manila provisioner Tomáš Smetana Róbert Vašek Kubernetes Kubernetes with hardware devices topology awareness at node level Lei Zhang, Jian He, Kai Zhang Junjun LI Kubernetes Run GPU sharing workloads with Kubernetes + Kubeflow Lei Zhang,Jian He,Kai Zhang Jianbo Ma Open Policy Agent IPTables Integration with OPEN POLICY AGENT(OPA) Tim Hinrichs, Reinaldo Penno Urvil Patel Prometheus Extending Prombench and adding rule formatting for Prometheus Krasi Georgiev Hrishikesh Barman Prometheus GitHub integrated benchmarking tool for Prometheus TSDB Krasi Georgiev Vladimir Masarik Prometheus Optimize queries using regex matchers for set lookups & Postings compression Ganesh Vernekar Zhiqi WANG rkt Add support for the OCI runtime spec by implementing a runc stage2 Alban Crequy, Iago López Galeiras Alejandro Germain Rook Enable multiple network interfaces for Rook storage providers Dmitry Yusupov Giovan Isa Musthofa TiKV Proposal for Auto-tune RocksDB Wu Yuanli Wang CNCF Projects GSoC Project Mentor(s) Mentee containerd Integrate Containerd with Katacontainers Harry Zhang Jian Liu CoreDNS Conditional Name Server Identifier - CoreDNS Miek Gieben, Yong Tang, John Belamaric Jiacheng Xu Envoy Extending Envoy's fuzzing coverage Matt Klein, Constance Caramanolis, Harvey Tuch Anirudh M Kubernetes Storage API for Aggregated API Servers David Eads, Stefan Schimanski Marko Mudrinić Prometheus Building a testing & benchmarking environment for Prometheus Krasi Georgiev, gouthamve Harsh_Agarwal Prometheus Composite Label Indices & Alerts rule testing gouthamve Ganesh Vernekar Rook Add Network File System (NFS) as a Rook storage backend Travs Nielsen, jbw976 Rohan Gupta CNCF Projects GSoC Project Mentor(s) Mentee Kubernetes Create and implement a Data model to standardize Kubernetes logs Miguel Pérez Colino Amit Kumar Jaiswal Kubernetes Develop a set of Jupyter Notebooks for the Kubernetes Python Client + Kubernetes Python Client update Sebastien Goasguen Konrad Djimeli CoreDNS dnstap Middleware Miek Gieben, John Belamaric Antoine D. Kubernetes Improve Third Party Resources Stefan Schimanski Nikhita Raghunath OpenTracing instrument OpenTracing with go-restful web framework Wu Sheng, Ted Young MINGQIANG LIANG

Code of Conduct

CNCF Mentoring programs follow the CNCF Code of Conduct.