GSoC 2021 Program Timeline- January 19 - Organization applications open
- March 9 - Accepted GSoC Organizations announced
- March 29-April 13 - Students submit their proposals
- May 17 - Accepted students are announced
- May 17-June 7 - Community bonding period with orgs
- June 7-Aug 23 - Students code the summer away
- August 31 - Successful student projects are announced
- Since year 2005, 16,000+ students and 13000 mentors from over 118 countries has came together to participate in GSoC
- Approximately 38+ million lines of code have been produced
- Description: Users configuring their Envoy-based data planes don't know how to find the optimal Envoy configuration given their workload's resiliency and performance requirements. Nighthawk, Envoy's load generator, supports adaptive load control and horizontally distributed scaling of itself. Using distributed load testing and the creation of a set of adaptive load controllers, Envoy users can be empowered with repeatable tooling to automate identification of an optimal Envoy data plane configuration.
- Recommended Skills: Golang, C++, Rust
- Mentor(s): Lee Calcote (@lcalcote), Otto van der Schaaf (@oschaaf)
- Issue(s): https://github.com/
envoyproxy/ envoy-perf/issues/72
- Description: Bring OSM on par with other service meshes that support WASM filters in their data plane. OSM's Envoy proxies can be extended at runtime with filters that are running in a WebAssembly sandbox (https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy-wasm). Provide ability to dynamically load and unload Envoy WASM filters. Provide general purpose filtering of application infrastrcuture logic, tying business logic closer to the mesh.
- Recommended Skills: Golang, Rust
- Mentor(s): Lee Calcote (@lcalcote), Abishek Kumar (@kumarabd)
- Upstream Issue (URL): https://github.com/
openservicemesh/ osm/issues/1671
- Description: Facilitate federation service mesh deployments across Kubernetes clusters, considering for service catalog federation and identity federation. Account for 1) multiple Kubernetes clusters using the same service mesh, 2) hetrogenius workloads (Kubernetes, VMs, Bare metal) using the same service mesh, 3) multiple Kubernetes clusters using different service meshes (e.g. Istio and Linkerd), 4) heterogeneous workloads using different service meshes (e.g. Istio, Consul).
- Recommended Skills: Golang, Kubernetes, Meshery, SMI
- Mentor(s): Lee Calcote (@lcalcote), Abishek Kumar (@kumarabd)
- Upstream Issue (URL): https://github.com/
servicemeshinterface/ smi-spec/issues/212
What is Layer5?
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