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- 2021 · acceptedCNCF - 2021 - Arsh Sharma ↗
- 2025 · acceptedCNCF - Knative - Functions AI Agent Callbacks ↗
- 2026 · acceptedReactive Agents With Drasi And Dapr JeffreyJPZ ↗
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114 communities · 8 indexed LFX years
Programs & participation
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2026Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Alternative Progressive Delivery for Deployment in OpenKruise Rollout
- Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of Inference Routing Extensions in kgateway
- kpt: Build e-commerce example kpt package
- OSCAL Document Signing and Verification in compliance-trestle
- Reactive Agents with Drasi & Dapr
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
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2025Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 11 projects indexed
- Allow Kubewarden Policies to be Written using JavaScript
- Automating Benchmarking of KubeStellar Data-Plane for AI Workloads
- Enhancements for RAG Chatbot for Vitess
- Generic High-Performance Caching Library for etcd
- Knative: Functions AI Agent Callbacks
- Kubebuilder: Automating Operator Maintenance - Driving Better Results with Less Overhead
- Lima: Support for Virtual Machine Plugin Subsystem
- Privacy-preserving and efficient AI model training across multi-clusters
- Real-Time Policy Evaluation in Meshery UI using OPA WebAssembly
- Simplified SPM deployment with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch for Jaeger
- Virtual filesystem security for WasmEdge plug-ins with exporting WASI APIs - Proposal
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
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2024Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 11 projects indexed
- Building a KubeArmor Extension for Rancher Manager
- CNCF GOSST Collaboration - Enhancing Security Across CNCF Ecosystem
- Falco: Upgrading event-generator and automating Falco performance testing
- Implementing Coredump for Post-Mortem Debugging in WebAssembly
- Improving WASM Support in Knative Functions
- KubeArmor: Automating Benchmarking Workflow
- Kubernetes Gateway API: Design and develop notification mechanism for ingress2gateway.
- Move out of gogo/protobuf to protobuf with vtproto implementation
- Open Cluster Management: Scheduling AI workload in multi-clusters
- Prometheus: Continued support for created timestamps
- Service Mesh Performance
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2023Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 14 projects indexed
- Add Support for SQL Database Storage in CurveBS
- Conmon-rs support for podman
- Dataplane migration for Apache Kafka communications: Leveraging Java19’s Project Loom.
- Enhancements for Dockerfiles
- Falco: Web IDE for Security Rules with WebAssembly
- GitHub Actions for KubeArmor
- IDE Plugins for editing vela applications
- Jaeger: Make ClickHouse a core storage backend
- Kubebuilder phase 2 plugin
- Kubectl plugin for Armada
- Prototyping Support for Content Addressable Systems like IPFS in TUF
- Streamlined OpenFeature Enhancement Proposal Process
- Support OpenMetrics _created timestamp in Prometheus
- Timeframe for Metrics
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
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2022Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 16 projects indexed
- A Grafana Dashboard Plugin to Observe Controller Metrics
- Add SLSA provenance support to in-toto-rs and rebuilderd
- CNCF Cluster: Performance Benchmarking
- CoreDNS: Add ACME protocol support for certificate management into TLS plugin
- Expand Service Mesh Patterns catalog
- Implement WASI and wasmedge_process host functions on Windows
- Implementing TAP(TUF Augmentation Proposal) 14 for python’s reference implementation
- in-toto: Add provenance extension to Jenkins plugin
- in-toto: DSSE Implementation
- KubeArmor Observability and Policy Discovery Helper Tool
- New Golang plugin to help Operator authors skill up
- Normalize TiKV Java client for TiSpark
- RPC cross different namespaces through unix socket
- Single binary deployment outside kubernetes environment.
- Standardize Cache Flag options for pack CLI
- Tooling to deploy and cross-configure cert-manager with external dependencies by Terraform
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2021Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 16 projects indexed
- [Litmus Portal] Authentication Module Refactor and OAuth Implementation
- Adaptive Load Control and Distributed Load Testing of Envoy Data Planes
- Automated, Granular TLS client support in Thanos
- Buildpacks Lifecycle Prepare Phase
- Cloud Native Buildpacks [CNCF] Project: Automatic Buildpack Registry Action Updates
- CNCF - CNB - Jenkins Plugins
- Develop in-toto-rs (Rust) for integration with rebuilderd
- Improve the usability of cert-manager on multiple cloud providers
- Make it easy to install and verify the installation of cert-manager
- Merge Crossplane/OAM-Runtime with KubeVela by specify version
- OpenEBS: Update mount-points and capacity of Block Devices without restarting NDM
- Smart automation for project documentation and website
- SMI Support for Multi-Cluster Operations
- TiKV: High-performance Data Import Tool
- TLA+ Spec for Async Commit
- web-based simulator for scheduler behaviour (Project: Kubernetes)
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2020Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 17 projects indexed
- Anomaly Detection of the CoreDNS Server through Machine Learning
- Cloud Native KV-service
- Cloud Storage
- Cluster Addons: Package all things!
- Develop local cluster provider for test-infa/prombench and extending test-infra
- Distributed Load Testing of Envoy Data Planes
- Do resource delivery around Kubernetes
- Enriching and Extending Thanos UIs with React for Awesome User Experience
- Kubernetes Multitenancy Working Group: Benchmarks
- Per Series Metric Retention - Thanos
- Port runlib into in-toto golang
- Prometheus - Running prombench on EKS and update dashboards
- Prometheus: Extending promtool for formatting PromQL expressions and YAML structure in rules files
- Rewrite NFS Operator to use controller-runtime
- Selectively disable Indexing of labels
- SMI Conformance Tool
- Versioned rawKV
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
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2019Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 15 projects indexed
- Add Plugin Mechanism to the Dashboard
- Add Support for Custom Resource Definitions to the Dashboard
- Add support for the OCI runtime spec by implementing a runc stage2
- Enable multiple network interfaces for Rook storage providers
- Extending Prombench and adding rule formatting for Prometheus
- Falco engine performance analysis and optimization
- GitHub integrated benchmarking tool for Prometheus TSDB
- Implement volume snapshotting support into the external Manila provisioner
- IPTables Integration with OPEN POLICY AGENT(OPA)
- Kubernetes with hardware devices topology awareness at node level
- Multi-mesh performance benchmark tool
- Prometheus - Optimize queries using regex matchers for set lookups & Postings compression
- Proposal for Auto-tune RocksDB
- Run GPU sharing workloads with Kubernetes + Kubeflow
- Support Source IP Based Query Block/Allow in CoreDNS
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
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2018Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Add Network File System (NFS) as a Rook storage backend
- Building a testing & benchmarking environment for Prometheus
- Composite Label Indices & Alerts rule testing
- Conditional Name Server Identifier - CoreDNS
- Extending Envoy's fuzzing coverage
- Integrate Containerd with Katacontainers
- Storage API for Aggregated API Servers
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2017Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- Create and implement a Data model to standardize Kubernetes logs
- Develop a set of Jupyter Notebooks for the Kubernetes Python Client + Kubernetes Python Client update
- dnstap Middleware
- Improve Third Party Resources
- instrument OpenTracing with go-restful web framework
- Integrate Unikernel Runtime
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.