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Project Maintainer Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Community Post 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

Ambassador Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post 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

Mentorship Post From mentee to mentor: my journey through LFX mentorship

Mentorship post originally published on Dev.to by Asmit Malakannawar Are you already actively contributing to open source and looking to take your involvement to the next level? You can participate in the LFX Mentorship program. Through...

July 11, 2023

Mentorship Post Congratulations to 57 CNCF Term 1 LFX Program Mentees!

By Staff A huge number of successful CNCF interns have graduated from this term’s LFX Program: 57! We had a great showing from the CNCF community with involvement across Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects as well...

June 9, 2023

Mentorship Post My LFX mentorship journey: the best starting point for contributing to open source

Guest post by CNCF (LitmusChaos) LFX mentee, Namkyu Park, originally published on dev.to Contributing to an open source that has already been participated to by so many participants is not straightforward. Most come up with questions...

May 30, 2023 | Namkyu Park

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