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2026

5 accepted · 14 ideasShow

Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of Inference Routing Extensions in kgateway
Accepted project · by Abhay1906
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kgateway routes AI inference traffic to self-hosted model servers. It picks the best server using EPP scoring — based on KV cache usage, queue depth,...
kpt: Build e-commerce example kpt package
Accepted project · by Jaisheesh
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Currently, while kpt is a highly capable tool for declarative Kubernetes management, its official examples rely heavily on complex, specialized...
Reactive Agents with Drasi & Dapr
Accepted project · by Jeffrey Zhang
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Agentic AI is commonly used to predict and resolve problems before they occur, requiring access to data in near real-time. However, traditional...
OSCAL Document Signing and Verification in compliance-trestle
Accepted project · by matteofari
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This project adds signing and verification for OSCAL JSON artifacts in compliance-trestle so generated documents can be verified in CI/CD and...
Alternative Progressive Delivery for Deployment in OpenKruise Rollout
Accepted project · by Yanxi Teng
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The current OpenKruise Rollout implementation for Deployment progressive delivery mutates the updateStrategy to Recreate, creating a dangerous risk...

Ideas list for 2026, as published in cncf/mentoring

Reactive Agents with Drasi & Dapr
Idea from the CNCF list for Drasi · large project
@amansinghoriginal @CasperGN Issue Source
Current AI Agents are mostly "passive"—they wait for a user to chat with them.
- Kubernetes & Docker
- Python
Security-focused UX Improvements for the Inspektor Gadget kubernetes-sigs/headlamp Plugin
Idea from the CNCF list for Inspektor Gadget · large project
@ashu8912 @dorser Issue Source
This project improves the user experience of the Inspektor Gadget plugin for Headlamp with a security-first perspective.
- eBPF fundamentals
- networking concepts
- Optional Kubernetes fundamentals
- React
- TypeScript
- UX design principles
AI-Powered Trace Analysis: Phase 2 - Self-Service "Skills" Framework
Idea from the CNCF list for Jaeger · large project
@jkowall @yurishkuro Issue Source
Jaeger is the industry-standard platform for distributed tracing.
Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of Inference Routing Extensions in kgateway
Idea from the CNCF list for kgateway · medium project
@npolshakova Issue Source
kgateway provides inference routing capabilities based on the Kubernetes Gateway API Inference Extension project.
- Go
- Kubernetes
Enrich KitOps Integration Guides with Kubeflow Model Registry, Argo Workflows, Kyverno
Idea from the CNCF list for KitOps · small project
@gorkem @amisevsk Issue Source
KitOps enables OCI-based packaging and distribution of ML artifacts such as models, datasets, and configurations.
- Documentation
- Go
- Python
Kmesh Dashboard for Simplified Service Mesh Management
Idea from the CNCF list for Kmesh · medium project
@LiZhenCheng9527 @hzxuzhonghu Issue Source
In discussions with developers and end-users, we have received numerous comments indicating that Kmesh presents an excessively high barrier to use.
- Kubernetes
- React
- Service Mesh concepts
- TypeScript
- UX/UI design principles
Build e-commerce example kpt package
Idea from the CNCF list for kpt · small project
@liamfallon @ciaranjohnston Issue Source
Use an example e-commerce application and create the related kpt package with the description how to deploy the application.
- basic cloud native skills
- Capability to learn
Unified transformer specification and its auto-generation method for the existing models
Idea from the CNCF list for ModelPack · medium project
@aftersnow @bergwolf Issue Source
Transformer is the dominant architecture for modern LLMs, and its design has largely converged.
- Python
Alternative progressive delivery of deployment without changing strategy to Recreate
Idea from the CNCF list for OpenKruise · medium project
@furykerry @AiRanthem Issue Source
Currently OpenKruise Rollout change the updateStrategy of kubernetes Deployment to Recreate during the progressive delivery.
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Operator Development
OSCAL documents signing
Idea from the CNCF list for OSCAL Compass · large project
@degenaro @butler54 Issue Source
CNCF OSCAL Compass trestle provides means to author and validate OSCAL documents including catalogs, profiles, component definitions and such.
- Python
GCP Cloud Run plugin for pipedv1
Idea from the CNCF list for PipeCD · medium project
@khanhtc1202 @Warashi Issue Source
PipeCD v1 - the new version based on a plugin architecture (ref: PipeCD plugin-arch overview blog), has released an alpha version, and we are rapidly adding features supported in v0.
- Continuous Delivery
- Flux
- GCP Cloud Run
- Go
Implement Custom Section Parsing and Branch Hinting proposal
Idea from the CNCF list for WasmEdge · large project
@q82419 Issue Source
As discussed in the WasmEdge January 2026 community meeting, some toolchains may want to apply the branch hinting proposal.
- C++
- WebAssembly
Refine the WASM instruction structure in WasmEdge
Idea from the CNCF list for WasmEdge · large project
@q82419 Issue Source
According to the definition of WASM instructions, there are variety of immediates in every instructions.
- C++
- WebAssembly
WASM Exception-Handling proposal for AOT/JIT in WasmEdge
Idea from the CNCF list for WasmEdge · large project
@q82419 Issue Source
The exception-handling proposal is merged into the WASM spec version 3.0.
- C++
- LLVM
- WebAssembly

2025

11 accepted · 23 ideasShow

Real-Time Policy Evaluation in Meshery UI using OPA WebAssembly
Accepted project · by Aabid Ali
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Abstract: This proposal outlines a plan to enhance Meshery's relationship evaluation capabilities by implementing client-side policy evaluation using...
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Automating Benchmarking of KubeStellar Data-Plane for AI Workloads
Accepted project · by Asmit Kumar Rai
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Problem: KubeStellar (KS) lacks an automated system to measure and visualize data-plane performance (e.g., sync latencies) under AI workloads, making...
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Allow Kubewarden Policies to be Written using JavaScript
Accepted project · by Esosa Ohangbon
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Kubewarden is a universal policy engine for Kubernetes enabling policy-as-code. It allows users to define and enforce policies for their Kubernetes...
Virtual filesystem security for WasmEdge plug-ins with exporting WASI APIs - Proposal
Accepted project · by grorge
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This project aims to enhance the security of WasmEdge plug-ins by exporting key WASI APIs, thereby ensuring a robust and secure virtual filesystem...
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Knative: Functions AI Agent Callbacks
Accepted project · by Kapil Sareen
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This project aims to integrate AI agents with Knative Functions by developing a MCP server that allows to dynamically create and deploy functions...
Simplified SPM deployment with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch for Jaeger
Accepted project · by Minh Nguyen Dang
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Jaeger’s Service Performance Management (SPM) currently requires a complex setup with a separate processor and Prometheus storage to compute RED...
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Generic High-Performance Caching Library for etcd
Accepted project · by Peter Chang
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etcd is a distributed key-value store that serves as the backbone for Kubernetes and other cloud-native systems, storing critical configuration and...
Privacy-preserving and efficient AI model training across multi-clusters
Accepted project · by Shichao
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This project aims to enable AI training in a multi-cluster environment while ensuring data privacy through federated learning. In a multi-cluster...
Enhancements for RAG Chatbot for Vitess
Accepted project · by sreehariX
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The current Vitess RAG chatbot which uses documentation, Slack discussions, and GitHub issues data, has low accuracy. This project aims to improve...
Lima: Support for Virtual Machine Plugin Subsystem
Accepted project · by unsuman_
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Lima(LInux MAchines) is a tool that helps to run Linux Virtual Machines on macOS and other hosts, with a focus on running containers on them with...
Kubebuilder: Automating Operator Maintenance - Driving Better Results with Less Overhead
Accepted project · by Vitor Floriano
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This project aims to create a GitHub Action similar to Dependabot for Kubebuilder, automating the process of regenerating scaffolds and preserving...

Ideas list for 2025, as published in cncf/mentoring

etcd cache
Idea from the CNCF list for etcd · small project
@serathius @MadhavJivrajani Issue Source
Develop a generic, high-performance caching library for etcd, inspired by the Kubernetes watch cache, to facilitate building scalable and efficient etcd-based applications.
- Distributes Systems
- Go
Enhance Harbor Satellite for Artifact Replication from Remote Registry to Edge
Idea from the CNCF list for Harbor · medium project
@vad1mo @OrlinVasilev Issue Source
The Harbor Satellite project aims to enable decentralized artifact replication in edge computing environments.
- Distribution-spec
- Go
- OCI-Registries
Service performance analysis on top of Elasticsearch / OpenSearch data
Idea from the CNCF list for Jaeger · large project
@yurishkuro @jkowall Issue Source
Jaeger is an open-source, distributed tracing platform designed to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in distributed systems.
- basic familiarity with Elasticsearch
- Go
KCL OCI third-party dependency management enhancement
Idea from the CNCF list for KCL · medium project
@zong-zhe @He1pa Issue Source
KCL is an open-source constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios.
- Go
- OCI
Dynamic AI Agent Callbacks
Idea from the CNCF list for Knative Functions · large project
@lkingland @aslom Issue Source
Knative Functions is well-suited for AI agent integration.
- and microservices a plus
- and web services
- Familiarity with kubernetes
- serveless
- Strong language and communication skills
Extend usage of Konveyor AI to detect and update deprecated Kubernetes API usage in golang applications
Idea from the CNCF list for Konveyor · large project
@jwmatthews @savitharaghunathan Issue Source
Konveyor is an application modernization platform that helps organizations migrate legacy applications to Kubernetes at scale.
- Go
- Kubernetes
- LLMs
- Python
Improve KubeArmor Observability Spectrum
Idea from the CNCF list for KubeArmor · medium project
@rootxrishabh @Prateeknandle Issue Source
KubeArmor is a security enforcement system that provides runtime protection for Kubernetes workloads.
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
Automating Operator Maintenance: Driving Better Results with Less Overhead
Idea from the CNCF list for KubeBuilder · large project
Issue Source
Code-generation tools like Kubebuilder and Operator-SDK have transformed cloud-native application development by providing scalable, community-driven frameworks.
Automating Benchmarking of KubeStellar Data-Plane
Idea from the CNCF list for KubeStellar · large project
@dumb0002 @jimcadden Issue Source
KubeStellar (KS) is an open-source Kubernetes multi-cluster workload configuration management system that can be used to manage AI workloads in multi-cluster environments.
- Cloud native AI/ML apps deployment
- Familiarity with KubeStellar
- Go
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- OpenTelemetry)
- Python
- +1
Allow policies to be written using JavaScript
Idea from the CNCF list for Kubewarden · large project
@viccuad @flavio Issue Source
Kubewarden is a Policy Engine powered by WebAssembly policies that enforces security and compliance in Kubernetes clusters.
- JavaScript
- Kubernetes
Elevate our .NET SDK into a first class citizen
Idea from the CNCF list for Kubewarden · medium project
@viccuad @flavio Issue Source
Kubewarden is a Policy Engine powered by WebAssembly policies that enforces security and compliance in Kubernetes clusters.
- .NET
- C#
- Kubernetes
VM plugin subsystem
Idea from the CNCF list for Lima · medium project
@AkihiroSuda @afbjorklund Issue Source
Lima (<https://lima-vm.io>) is a project that provides Linux virtual machines with a focus on running containers.
- Go
- gRPC
- macOS
- QEMU
Terraform Support for LitmusChaos
Idea from the CNCF list for LitmusChaos · large project
@Saranya-jena @SarthakJain26 Issue Source
LitmusChaos is an open-source Chaos Engineering platform that helps teams uncover weaknesses and potential outages in their applications by running controlled chaos experiments.
- Go
- Terraform
Extensibility of Meshery Dashboard: Enhance meshery dashboard with extensible widgets
Idea from the CNCF list for Meshery · large project
@leecalcote @codeSafari10 Issue Source
All dashboard widgets in Meshery UI are currently defined and bundled directly within the UI, limiting extensibility and modularity.
- Azure
- Go
- Kubernetes
- React
- well-written and well-spoken English
Support for Azure in Meshery
Idea from the CNCF list for Meshery · large project
@leecalcote @miacycle Issue Source
Enhance Meshery's existing orchestration capabilities to include support for Azure.
- Azure
- Go
- Kubernetes
- well-written and well-spoken English
Distributed client-side inference (policy evaluation) with WebAssembly (WASM) and OPA in Meshery
Idea from the CNCF list for Meshery · large project
@leecalcote @hortison Issue Source
Meshery's highly dynamic infrastructure configuration capabilities require real-time evaluation of complex policies.
- Go
- OPA
- WebAssembly
- well-written and well-spoken English
Privacy-preserving and efficient AI model training across multi-cluster
Idea from the CNCF list for Open Cluster Management · large project
@yanmxa @haoqing0110 Issue Source
Open Cluster Management (OCM) streamlines multi-cluster workload management through APIs that align with SIG-Multicluster standards.
- Federated Learning
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Open Cluster Management
- Scheduling
Enhance Java ORAS SDK
Idea from the CNCF list for ORAS · medium project
@jonesbusy @FeynmanZhou Issue Source
The ORAS project aims to enhance its Java SDK to support a broader range of features from the OCI Distribution spec.
- Java
- oci
Snapshot Merkle trees
Idea from the CNCF list for The Update Framework (TUF) · medium project
@lukpueh @JustinCappos Issue Source
The TUF *snapshot* role is responsible for consistency proofs in a TUF repository.
- data structures
- Python
Enhancements for FAQ Chatbot for Vitess
Idea from the CNCF list for Vitess · large project
@rohit-nayak-ps @GuptaManan100 Issue Source
Vitess is a distributed database system built on MySQL.
- Go
- LLM APIs
- Python
- vector databases
Virtual filesystem security for WasmEdge plug-ins with exporting WASI APIs
Idea from the CNCF list for WasmEdge · large project
@q82419 @ibmibmibm Issue Source
The WASI proposal defines the variety of rules to guarantee the virtual filesystem security and isolation when executing WASM binaries.
- C++
- WebAssembly
Port WasmEdge and the WASI-NN ggml backend to the s390x platform
Idea from the CNCF list for WasmEdge · large project
@hydai @dm4 Issue Source
WasmEdge provides cross-platform support for amd64 and arm64 for executing AI/LLM applications.
- C++
- LLVM
- s390x
Use Runwasi with WasmEdge runtime to test multiple WASM apps as cloud services
Idea from the CNCF list for WasmEdge · large project
@CaptainVincent @0yi0 Issue Source
With WasmEdge serving as one of Runwasi’s standard runtimes, and as our C++-implemented library continues to evolve, we also need a verification process integrated into Runwasi to streamline and valid
- C++
- GDB
- Git
- github workflow
- Rust
- Shell