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 or contact one of the admins below:

• Chris Aniszczyk (@caniszczyk): https://twitter.com/cra
• Ihor Dvoretskyi (@idvoretskyi): https://twitter.com/idvoretskyi
• Nikhita Raghunath (@nikhita): https://twitter.com/TheNikhita

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).

Program	Purpose	Details and historical data
Community Bridge	Mentoring initiative by the Linux Foundation	communitybridge
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

Program Statistics

Year	Program	Internships	Total (per year)
2020	CommunityBridge	TBD	TBD
	GSoC	TBD
	GSoD	TBD
	Outreachy	TBD
2019	CommunityBridge	4	20
	GSoC	15
	Outreachy	1
2018	GSoC	7	8
	Outreachy	1
2017	GSoC	6	8
	Outreachy	2

Community Bridge

2020

Q2

In progress

Q1

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

2019

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

GSoC

2020

In progress

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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