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CNCF

Building sustainable ecosystems for cloud native

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) serves as the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy.

prometheus
kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
envoy

cloud
cloud native
observability

Project ideas

13 ideas on its 2026 ideas page. Sizes: 2 small, 5 medium, 6 large. 27 mentors named.

Reactive Agents with Drasi & Dapr large
Security-focused UX Improvements for the Inspektor Gadget kubernetes-sigs/headlamp Plugin large
AI-Powered Trace Analysis: Phase 2 - Self-Service "Skills" Framework large
Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of Inference Routing Extensions in kgateway medium
Enrich KitOps Integration Guides with Kubeflow Model Registry, Argo Workflows, Kyverno small
Kmesh Dashboard for Simplified Service Mesh Management medium
Build e-commerce example kpt package small
Unified transformer specification and its auto-generation method for the existing models medium
Alternative progressive delivery of deployment without changing strategy to Recreate medium
OSCAL documents signing large
GCP Cloud Run plugin for pipedv1 medium
Refine the WASM instruction structure in WasmEdge large
WASM Exception-Handling proposal for AOT/JIT in WasmEdge large

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2017, 10 years. Projects per year: '17: 6, '18: 7, '19: 15, '20: 17, '21: 16, '22: 16, '23: 14, '24: 11, '25: 11, '26: 5.

On GitHub

96 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Shell (17), JavaScript (9), HTML (8), Go (6), Rust (6), TypeScript (6).

Links and channels

Website: https://cncf.io
Ideas page: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/blob/main/programs/summerofcode/2026.md
Contributor guide: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring
Source code: https://github.com/cncf/
Mailing list: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/discussions
Email: soc@cncf.io

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "CNCF" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "CNCF"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "CNCF"

or ask your assistant:
"Which CNCF repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.