LFX Mentorship organizations

KubeEdge

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2020–2026

Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)

• AI PC
• AI/ML
• Admission Webhooks
• +64

WasmEdge

Systems & Kernel · 2021–2026

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It…

• Anna KVS
• C++
• C/C++
• +74

Kyverno

Security · 2021–2026

Kyverno participates in LFX Mentorship.

• AI Engineering
• AI agent harness
• Admission Controls
• +66

Meshery

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2021–2026

Meshery, the cloud native manager

• AWS and its services.
• Argo
• Azure
• +119

Volcano

AI & Data · 2020–2026

A Cloud Native Batch System (Project under CNCF)

• Chinese
• DRA
• Device Plugin
• +89

Kubernetes

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2019–2026

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

• AI-assisted tools)
• API machinery
• AWS
• +62

Karmada

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2022–2026

Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

• Bash/shell scripting
• CI/CD systems (e.g.
• Cloud Native
• +39

Harbor

Storage · 2023–2026

An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

• Angular
• Clarity
• Container
• +46

KubeArmor

Security · 2022–2026

Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs…

• C
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
• Fluentd
• +37

OpenKruise

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2023–2026

Automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes (incubating project under CNCF)

• Docker
• Go
• JWT
• +33

Jaeger

Observability · 2023–2026

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

• Ant Design components
• CI/CD
• CSS
• +57

Headlamp

Development Tools · 2025–2026

A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible

• API resources)
• Figma or similar tools
• Go
• +62

KubeStellar

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2025–2026

KubeStellar - a flexible solution for multi-cluster configuration management for edge, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud

• AI model
• CSS Modules expertise.
• Carbon)
• +90

Prometheus

Observability · 2020–2026

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

• CI
• CI/CD
• Go
• +21

LitmusChaos

Development Tools · 2021–2026

Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way. Chaos experiments are published at the ChaosHub (…

• CI/CD
• CLI
• Chaos Engineering
• +17

Kubescape

Security · 2023–2026

Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security platform for your IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and clusters. It includes risk analysis, security,…

• CLI design
• CRDs
• CSAF
• +34

KubeVela

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2021–2026

The Modern Application Platform.

• CRDs
• CUE
• ConfigMaps
• +52

OpenTelemetry

Observability · 2020–2026

OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software.

• API/interface design
• C++
• Erlang
• +38

Kmesh

Networking · 2025–2026

High Performance ServiceMesh Data Plane Based on eBPF and Programmable Kernel

• C
• Go
• Headlamp UI
• +21

Knative

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2023–2026

Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads

• Apache Kafka
• CI/CD systems a plus.
• CSS
• +31

Chaos Mesh

Development Tools · 2020–2026

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes.

• CLI development
• Chaos Mesh
• Chaos Mesh usage
• +20

urunc

Systems & Kernel · 2026–2026

a simple container runtime that aspires to become `runc` for unikernels

• Argo
• DNS resolution).
• Go
• +40

Antrea

Networking · 2024–2026

Kubernetes networking based on Open vSwitch

• Go
• +15

Cilium

Networking · 2022–2026

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

• CSS
• Content Writing
• Docker
• +21

kgateway

Networking · 2025–2026

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

• Claude Code
• Envoy
• Git
• +25

Microcks

Development Tools · 2025–2026

The open source, cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project 🚀

• API dev mock & test
• APIs.
• AWS and AWS services
• +25

PipeCD

Development Tools · 2025–2026

The One CD for All {applications, platforms, operations}

• AWS
• Amazon ECS
• CI/CD
• +22

Krkn

Development Tools · 2025–2026

Chaos and resiliency testing tool for Kubernetes with a focus on improving performance under failure conditions. A CNCF sandbox project.

• <br/>
• Agent development
• Ingresses
• +22

KubeSlice

Networking · 2025–2026

KubeSlice participates in the CNCF mentorship program.

• CLI
• CRDs
• Ginkgo)
• +17

Apicurio Registry

AI & Data · 2026–2026

An API/Schema registry - stores APIs and Schemas.

• CloudEvents
• JSON Schema
• Java
• +9

HAMi

AI & Data · 2026–2026

Heterogeneous GPU Sharing on Kubernetes

• C/C++
• CUDA
• Docusaurus
• +30

Koordinator

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2026–2026

A QoS-based scheduling system brings optimal layout and status to workloads such as microservices, web services, big data jobs, AI jobs,…

• CRDs
• Go
• Kwok
• +18

Kuadrant

Security · 2026–2026

Gateway Policies for Kubernetes

• A2A
• Go (required)
• OpenShift Console SDK
• +14

OpenCost

Observability · 2025–2026

Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs

• APIs
• Carbon Design System
• Comfort with OpenCost
• +16

OpenEverest

Storage · 2026–2026

OpenEverest is an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management. It supports multiple database technologies and…

• Cobra CLI framework
• Git/GitHub workflow
• Go
• +25

OpenYurt

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2025–2026

OpenYurt - Extending your native Kubernetes to edge(project under CNCF)

• Go
• K3s)
• KubeEdge
• +24

Fluid

AI & Data · 2026–2026

Fluid, elastic data abstraction and acceleration for BigData/AI applications in cloud. (Project under CNCF)

• CLI tool development
• Fluid
• Go
• +6

kube-burner

Development Tools · 2025–2026

Kubernetes performance and scale test orchestration framework written in golang

• Cloud Platforms
• Go
• Kubernetes

Kubeflow

AI & Data · 2026–2026

Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes

• Apache Spark
• CRDs
• Go
• +11

Podman Container Tools

Development Tools · 2025–2026

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

• AI
• CI/CD
• Design
• +15

The Update Framework (TUF)

Security · 2024–2026

Python reference implementation of The Update Framework (TUF)

• TUF
• Technical writing
• etc.
• +7

etcd

Storage · 2021–2026

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

• Documentation
• English
• Go
• +11

Flatcar Container Linux

Systems & Kernel · 2026–2026

Flatcar Container Linux participates in LFX Mentorship.

• ClusterAPI
• Full Stack
• Go
• +9

Kubespray

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2024–2026

Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

• Ansible
• GitLab CI
• Kubernetes
• +1

Drasi

AI & Data · 2026–2026

Drasi participates in the CNCF mentorship program.

• Kafka
• etc.)
• pub/sub patterns)
• +8

Lima

Development Tools · 2026–2026

Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

• Go
• Hyper-V
• QEMU
• +2

Velero

Storage · 2026–2026

Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

• CSI
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions CI
• +4

Thanos

Observability · 2020–2025

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

• Ansible
• CSS
• DNS
• +30

Vitess

Storage · 2021–2025

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

• Communication
• Distributed Database
• Docker ++
• +31

KCL

Development Tools · 2024–2025

KCL Programming Language Core and API (CNCF Sandbox Project).

• Go
• Java
• LSP
• +3

Inspektor Gadget

Observability · 2024–2025

Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF

• BPF
• Community Engagement
• Go
• +18

Istio

Networking · 2023–2025

Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

• Developer advocacy
• Go
• Hugo
• +15

CloudNativePG

Storage · 2025–2025

The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.

• CloudNativePG
• Go
• Hugo
• +15

Envoy Gateway

Networking · 2024–2025

Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway

• Envoy Gateway
• Go
• Hugo)
• +13

Cartography

Security · 2025–2025

Cartography is a Python tool that pulls infrastructure assets and their relationships into a Neo4j graph database.

• AWS SDK (boto3)
• Python
• +10

Copacetic

Security · 2024–2025

🧵 CLI tool for directly patching container images!

• Docker
• Go
• Trivy
• +5

Kagent

AI & Data · 2025–2025

Cloud Native Agentic AI | Discord:

• Kubernetes
• Python
• familar with GitHub.
• +4

Kube State Metrics

Observability · 2025–2025

Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

• +4

Konveyor

Development Tools · 2023–2024

Open Source Migration Tools for Kubernetes

• ArgoCD
• Eclipse
• Go
• +17

Service Mesh Performance

Networking · 2021–2024

Standardizing Cloud Native Value Measurement

• Algorithms
• Analytics
• Cuelang
• +14

Cloud Native Buildpacks

Development Tools · 2021–2024

Cloud Native Buildpacks participates in the CNCF mentorship program.

• CSS
• Design
• Docker (Containers)
• +13

CNCF TAG Network

Networking · 2022–2024

CNCF TAG Network participates in LFX Mentorship.

• Argo
• CoreDNS
• DevOps
• +25

Crossplane

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2021–2024

The Cloud Native Control Plane

• CLI tools
• Crossplane
• Go
• +7

CRI-O

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2023–2024

Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

• Go
• Rust
• +1

in-toto

Security · 2024–2024

in-toto is a framework to protect supply chain integrity.

• Go
• Java
• Jenkins
• +3

KWOK

Development Tools · 2024–2024

Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Nodes and Clusters.

• Go
• Kubernetes
• Technical Writing

Flux

Development Tools · 2024–2024

Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.

• AWS
• GitHub Actions
• Go

K8sGPT

AI & Data · 2024–2024

Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone

• Go
• Kubernetes

Linkerd

Networking · 2020–2023

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x.

• Go
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• +5

Cortex

Observability · 2020–2023

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

• Go
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• +3

CoreDNS

Networking · 2019–2023

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

• Certificate Management
• DNS
• DNS.
• +5

ORAS

Storage · 2023–2023

OCI registry client - managing content like artifacts, images, packages

• C#/.NET
• CSS
• Docker
• +10

Notary

Security · 2023–2023

Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data

• CSS
• Docker
• Figma design
• +11

CNCF Landscape

Development Tools · 2023–2023

🌄 The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape filters and sorts hundreds of projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars,…

• 1. Proto-Personas
• Design Thinking
• Figma and prototyping.
• +11

CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy

Development Tools · 2022–2023

CNCF Technical Advisory Group on Contributor Strategy -- maintainer relations, building up contributors, governance, graduation, and more.

• Kubernetes
• System Administration
• VSCode
• +2

Kubewarden

Security · 2023–2023

Kubewarden participates in the CNCF mentorship program.

• Go
• Kubernetes
• Rust

Armada

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2023–2023

A multi-cluster batch queuing system for high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes.

• Go
• SQL

Carvel

Development Tools · 2023–2023

Carvel provides a set of reliable, single-purpose, composable tools that aid in your application building, configuration, and deployment to…

• Go

NATS

Networking · 2023–2023

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

• .NET
• C#
• NATS
• +1

Strimzi

Storage · 2023–2023

Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes

• Java
• +2

TestGrid

Development Tools · 2023–2023

TestGrid participates in the CNCF mentorship program.

• CSS
• Go
• TypeScript

Tremor

Observability · 2021–2022

Main Tremor Project Rust Codebase

• CI/GitHub Actions
• Databases
• DevOps
• +24

Service Mesh Interface

Networking · 2020–2022

Service Mesh Interface participates in LFX Mentorship.

• GitHub Actions
• Go
• ReactJS
• +3

Devfile

Development Tools · 2022–2022

File specification and tools for software defined cloud development environments

• Compose
• Go
• Kubernetes

Kuma

Networking · 2022–2022

🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.

• Go
• Kubernetes

OpenELB

Networking · 2022–2022

Load Balancer Implementation for Kubernetes in Bare-Metal, Edge, and Virtualization

• Docker
• Go
• HTML
• +3

OpenFunction

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2022–2022

Cloud Native Function-as-a-Service Platform (CNCF Sandbox Project)

• Kubernetes
• OpenFunction
• Python

Pixie

Observability · 2022–2022

Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability

• C++

OpenEBS

Storage · 2020–2021

A popular & widely deployed Open Source Container Native Storage platform for Stateful Persistent Applications on Kubernetes.

• Docker
• Go
• Grafana
• +11

TiKV

Storage · 2020–2021

Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB

• Database
• Go
• JavaScript
• +3

Keptn

Development Tools · 2020–2021

Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of…

• Angular
• Docker
• Go
• +6

Envoy

Cloud Native · 2020–2021

Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

• C++
• Go
• Rust

Open Service Mesh

Cloud Native · 2020–2021

Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get…

• Go
• rust

Project Rekor

Security · 2021–2021

Software Supply Chain Transparency Log

• Github
• Scripting
• for example GPG).
• +1

Racklet

Infrastructure & Cloud · 2021–2021

Open source scale-model of Data Centers using commodity compute like Raspberry Pis

• API and library design
• Continuous Integration
• Documentation
• +10

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Security · 2021–2021

The SPIFFE Runtime Environment

• Go

Argo

Cloud Native · 2020–2020

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

• Deployment
• Go
• Kustomize
• +3

Fluentd

Cloud Native · 2020–2020

Fluentd: Unified Logging Layer (project under CNCF)

• CSS
• Javascript
• VueJS
• +1

KubeVirt

Cloud Native · 2020–2020

Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

• Go
• Kubernetes
• virtualization

OPA

Cloud Native · 2020–2020

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

• Go
• Go/Python
• MongoDB (not required
• +2

Open Service Mesh, Kuma and Service Mesh Interface

Cloud Native · 2020–2020

Open Service Mesh, Kuma and Service Mesh Interface participates in the CNCF mentorship program.

• Go

Jaeger & Linkerd

Cloud Native · 2019–2019

Jaeger & Linkerd participates in the CNCF mentorship program.