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When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t
A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....
March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer
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Kubelet watches inodes. Just not until it’s an emergency.
A worker node pages with NodeFilesystemFilesFillingUp. It’s on course to run out of inodes. You check the disk first, because that’s what everyone checks first, and it reads 83% used: 103G used, 22G available. Then you...
October 5, 2026 | Onkar Raghunath Shelke. SRE. CNCF/LFX mentor across four KubeStellar mentorship projects (2025 Terms 2 and 3). GSoC 2026 contributor with Red Hat, on JBoss Web Server tooling. CKA, RHCSA, AWS SAA. Pune, India.
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Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX
I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a...
August 10, 2026 | Uzochukwu Nweneary | LFX Mentee
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My LFX mentorship journey with kgateway
Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies around Kubernetes,...
July 24, 2026 | Lahiru De Silva
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Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from dependency management to stewardship
Modern software runs on open source. In fact, “free” and open source software generates more than $500 billion in annual value in the U.S. alone and an estimated $8.8 trillion in total global value. For most...
March 31, 2026 | Bloomberg
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CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working...
February 4, 2026 | Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship & Documentation at CNCF
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The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship...
December 18, 2025 | Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship & Documentation at CNCF
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Optimizing Kyverno CLI performance: My LFX mentorship journey
Why Open Source? While exploring CNCF Projects in early 2025, I stumbled upon Kyverno and its community impressed me. The mentors and community members encouraged me to become a part of LFX Mentorship and motivated me...
December 10, 2025 | Abhishek Dhiman, Kyverno Contributor
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Kgateway v2.1 is released!
Kgateway is an open source implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API that unifies ingress, API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities in a singular modular control plane. Built for performance and flexibility, it secures and...
November 18, 2025 | Nina Polshakova, Nadine Spies, & Michael Levan, Solo.io, Aryan Parashar, LFX Mentee
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Adding distributed tracing to AI Gateway: My LFX mentorship journey
In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, effectively monitoring and debugging AI Gateways has become a critical challenge. This article shares my complete experience through the LFX Mentorship program, where I added OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support to...
October 20, 2025 | Zhengke Zhou
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How should Prometheus handle OpenTelemetry resource attributes? – A UX Research Report
On May 29th, 2025, I wrapped up my mentorship with Prometheus through the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program. My project focused on understanding how Prometheus handles OpenTelemetry resource attributes and how that experience could be improved for...
August 25, 2025 | Victoria Nduka, User Experience Designer
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Beyond Code: Open Source, Mentorship and Microcks
Photo by Diva Plavalaguna from Pexels Open source software proves that collective contribution creates collective value. However, as a contributor to Microcks, I have observed a concerning pattern that threatens the sustainability of the project and...
August 14, 2025 | Krishi Agrawal, LFX Mentee with CNCF - Microcks
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Unlock growth and talent: why maintainers should mentor with CNCF
By Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship and Documentation, CNCF Open source projects rely on strong communities. Mentorship programs like LFX Mentorship and Google Summer of Code offer maintainers a chance to bring new contributors into their...
November 21, 2024
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Congratulations to 45 CNCF Term 2 2024 LFX Program mentees!
Mentorship blog by Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship & Documentation at CNCF We are thrilled to share that 45 CNCF mentees with the LFX Program have successfully completed their mentorship. Numerous CNCF projects across Graduated, Incubating,...
September 27, 2024
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CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Program Term 1 2024!
Congratulations to CNCF’s 2024 Term 1 (March – May) LFX Program mentees who have finished the program successfully! Following a three-month program working with 28 different Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects, including Antrea, Istio, KubeEdge, OpenTelemetry,...
June 19, 2024
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Embarking on a professional growth adventure: insights from my LFX Mentorship Program with LitmusChaos
Mentorship post originally published on dev.to by Magnim Thibaut Freedisch Batale The Linux Foundation Mentorship Program offers a dynamic three-month internship where participants engage in hands-on projects while receiving a stipend. When I first applied for...
December 27, 2023 | Magnim Thibaut Freedisch Batale
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My journey of CNCF mentorship and open source
Mentorship post originally published on Medium by Mohammed Affan Diving Into the Open Source: In the summer of 2023, I decided to jump into the open-source world to get some hands-on software development experience as a...
December 22, 2023 | Mohammed Affan
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LFX Program’s CNCF mentees have successfully finished Term 3!
We are thrilled to congratulate 34 mentees who have successfully graduated from the LFX Program after working with various CNCF projects over the last three months! Mentees had the opportunity to work on many different projects...
December 14, 2023 | CNCF staff
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My experience as an LFX mentee for the Jaeger project
Mentorship post originally published on Dev.to by Afzal Ansari Introduction I am thrilled to share my experience as an LFX Mentee for Jaeger, an open-source project that focuses on observability within the cloud native ecosystem. My...
September 22, 2023
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36 CNCF term 2 LFX mentees have successfully completed the program!
Congratulations to the 36 interns who have graduated from the LFX Program after working with CNCF projects over June, July, and August! Mentees had the opportunity to work on many different projects across our Graduated, Incubating,...
September 12, 2023
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Discovering chaos: my LFX mentorship journey with LitmusChaos
Mentorship post originally published on dev.to by Nagesh Bansal, LitmusChaos Contributor Diving into Kubernetes as a newcomer can be quite overwhelming. Have you ever thought about contributing to CNCF projects? If so, you’ve probably had a...
September 8, 2023