Latest revision as of 16:03, 15 February 2023

This page is not actively maintained.

Before working on any of the internship ideas on this page, contact the listed Mentor to find out whether the idea is still relevant.

You can also take a look at the current Outreachy proposals, which are up-to-date: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/#openstack

Finally, you can take a look at the current "Upstream Investment Opportunities", which lists projects of interest to the community that don't have owners: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/upstream-investment-opportunities/

To submit new ideas please consider creating a new page and use the Template:InternshipIdea (instructions are provided on that page) and you can see how a sample idea page would look like. The pages created with such template are listed on Category:Internship_idea.

List of Ideas for Internships

The OpenStack Foundation has multiple sources for internships, from Outreachy to Google Summer of Code and other opportunities. This page collects the ideas for candidate interns to work on.

Applicants may not have ever worked on FLOSS before and have different levels of competence. Since we have different programs, add here ideas that can be completed by inexperienced contributors, developers or other fields (marketing, communication, graphic design, and anything that may be useful for OpenStack and to include new people in this community).

Coding

OpenStack as a virtual Kubernetes node

Implement a virtual Kubernetes node that allows running containers/pods on OpenStack. Students applying to work on this will learn about Zun and Kubernetes, and will work on implemeting a whole new feature for Zun, which will include not only coding but also testing and documentation efforts. See https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet/issues/22 for more info on the requirement

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Zun, Kubernetes
Required skills	Python Go
Extra skills
Mentor	hongbin on IRC channel #openstack-zun @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Improve Cinder integration for Docker containers

Add support for Cinder volume multi-attach for Docker containers. Students willing to take this task will learn about Zun and Cinder. During the Ocata cycle a new flow for volume attaching has been implemented in Cinder. We want to make Zun leverage this new flow. Implementing this will require the student not only contribute with code, but also with testing and documentation for the feature. Check https://blueprints.launchpad.net/zun/+spec/cinder-volume-multi-attach for more details.

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Zun, OpenStack Cinder, Docker
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	hongbin on IRC channel #openstack-zun @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Help Implement Support for a Generic Backup Driver in Cinder

The goal is to create a generic backup driver that be used to turn any Cinder volume backend into a target for backups. This way, we won't need to implement specific backup driver for supported backends. Students picking this internship task will learn about Cinder and will be asked to contribute with testing and documentation of this feature. Refer to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/504099/1/specs/queens/generic-backup-implementation.rst for more detials

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Cinder, Storage
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	jungleboyj and e0ne on IRC channel #openstack-cinder @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Eliminate Redundant Downloads of Uncached Images

An important component in the amount of time it takes to boot a new virtual machine is how long it takes to get the image being used from backend storage down to the host. To speed this up, Glance has optional caching middleware that for some back ends (specifically, OpenStack Swift), significantly improves performance. The problem is that the cache is kind of stupid, and in the scenario where someone wants to boot 1000 VMs from the same image, each request will discover that the image isn't cached, and will initiate a download from the storage backend, resulting in severely degraded performance.

There are some complexities to improving the caching middleware that are discussed in a Glance specification document: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/glance-specs/specs/untargeted/glance/duplicate-downloads.html . In addition to coding, you will get exposure to working in an open-source community from the design phase through implementation, because your first task will be to re-propose the spec to the Glance community so that it can be reviewed and re-approved. (Don't worry, this won't drag on because it was already approved once; it is untargeted because the original developer was reassigned to a different project.) This is an interesting project that will touch several Glance components: the API server, the caching middleware, and the glance_store library. And, of course, you'll be adding good tests.

Difficulty	Low to Medium (you don't need previous OpenStack experience, but you need to be self-motivated enough to learn the components of Glance and how they interact)
Topics	Glance
Required skills	Python
Extra skills	General distributed systems knowledge
Mentor	jokke_ on IRC channel #openstack-glance @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Transform legacy notifications to the new versioned framework in Nova

Help transforming legacy Nova notifications to a new versioned framework. Students applying for this task will learn about Nova and the oslo.messaging library, and will help transforming the legacy notifications of Nova to a proper versioned API using an already established framework. Check for more details on this page https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/VersionedNotificationTransformation

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Nova
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	gibi on IRC channel #openstack-nova @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Policy Testing

WIth all the system-scope work coming down the pipe and landing in Queens, we need to be prepared to rethink out test_v3_protection.py test module. This is the module responsible for making it so policies are doing what they should. Since we're adding a few new combinations with system scope, this should result in a test explosion that could be difficult to maintain and understand.

Can we come up with a way to flexibly test different policy cases
Refactor current coverage
Integration with Patrole

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Keystone
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	hrybacki and lbragstad on IRC channel #openstack-keystone @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Flask support

We have a home-grown WSGI implementation when there are suitable frameworks to do that lifting for us. We can get rid of a wheel to maintain by moving to a framework and ditching the home-grown implementation. We've talked about moving to Flask for a while. The benefits would be less maintenance of a home-grown implementation.

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Keystone
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	TBA
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Native SAML

Currently, federation requires the use of Apache plugins to do the SAML processing. We want to experiment with a piece of middleware that can go into keystone paste pipeline to process SAML according to specification. This will make federation easier to configure for deployers and it has the ability to reduce a mapping currently used in federation (assertions -> env var, env vars -> keystone mappings).

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Keystone
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	cmurphy and rodrigods on IRC channel #openstack-keystone @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Make keystone a fully-fledged IdP

Currently, keystone can act as an IdP but only in a non-standard in-house-designed auth flow, not with WebSSO. We could implement the rest of the WebSSO standard in keystone. https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1470205 This could be a good warm-up bug for either this or the Native SAML project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1641625

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Keystone
Required skills	Python
Extra skills
Mentor	TBA
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

OpenStack Manila Integration with OpenStack CLI (OSC)

OpenStackClient (aka OSC) is a command-line client for OpenStack that brings the command set for Compute, Identity, Image, Object Store and Volume APIs together in a single shell with a uniform command structure. OSC primary goal is to provide a unified shell command structure and a common language to describe operations in OpenStack. Manila basic commands should be added to OSC client. This will be helpful for user to provide a unified shell command structure to describe operations in OpenStack.

Difficulty	Low
Topics	OpenStack Manila
Required skills	Ruby
Extra skills	Python
Mentor	enriquetaso and vkmc on IRC channel #openstack-manila @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program	Outreachy May-Aug 2019 candidates.

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+<span style="font-size: 150%">This page is not actively maintained.</span>
+<br/><br/>
+Before working on any of the internship ideas on this page, contact the listed Mentor to find out whether the idea is still relevant.
+<br/><br/>
+You can also take a look at the current Outreachy proposals, which are up-to-date:
+https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/#openstack
+<br/><br/>
+Finally, you can take a look at the current "Upstream Investment Opportunities", which lists projects of interest to the community that don't have owners:
+https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/upstream-investment-opportunities/
+</div>
 To submit new ideas please consider creating a new page and use the [[Template:InternshipIdea]] (instructions are provided on that page) and you can see how a [[Test idea|sample idea page]] would look like. The pages created with such template are listed on [[:Category:Internship_idea]].
 =  List of Ideas for Internships =
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   {{InternshipIdea|
-  TITLE=Trove - Users and databases CRUD operations for CouchDB |
+  TITLE=OpenStack as a virtual Kubernetes node|
-  DESCRIPTION=Add basic support for user and databases management in CouchDB |
+ DESCRIPTION=Implement a virtual Kubernetes node that allows running containers/pods on OpenStack. Students applying to work on this will learn about Zun and Kubernetes, and will work on implemeting a whole new feature for Zun, which will include not only coding but also testing and documentation efforts. See https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet/issues/22 for more info on the requirement|
-  DIFFICULTY=Medium |
+ DIFFICULTY=Medium|
-  TOPICS=Trove |
+ TOPICS=OpenStack Zun, Kubernetes|
-  SKILLS=Python |
+ SKILLS=Python Go|
-  EXTRA_SKILLS= NoSQL |
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=|
-  MENTORS=vkmc |
+ MENTORS=hongbin on IRC channel #openstack-zun @ freenode |
-  STATUS=None |
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
-  PROGRAM=Outreach Dec-Apr 2016
+ PROGRAM=
+}}
+{{InternshipIdea|
+ TITLE=Improve Cinder integration for Docker containers|
+  DESCRIPTION=Add support for Cinder volume multi-attach for Docker containers. Students willing to take this task will learn about Zun and Cinder. During the Ocata cycle a new flow for volume attaching has been implemented in Cinder. We want to make Zun leverage this new flow. Implementing this will require the student not only contribute with code, but also with testing and documentation for the feature. Check https://blueprints.launchpad.net/zun/+spec/cinder-volume-multi-attach for more details.|
+  DIFFICULTY=Medium|
+  TOPICS=OpenStack Zun, OpenStack Cinder, Docker|
+  SKILLS=Python|
+  EXTRA_SKILLS=|
+  MENTORS=hongbin on IRC channel #openstack-zun @ freenode |
+  STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
+  PROGRAM=
+}}
+{{InternshipIdea|
+ TITLE=Help Implement Support for a Generic Backup Driver in Cinder|
+ DESCRIPTION=The goal is to create a generic backup driver that be used to turn any Cinder volume backend into a target for backups.
+This way, we won't need to implement specific backup driver for supported backends. Students picking this internship task will learn about Cinder and will be asked to contribute with testing and documentation of this feature. Refer to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/504099/1/specs/queens/generic-backup-implementation.rst for more detials |
+ DIFFICULTY=Medium|
+ TOPICS=OpenStack Cinder, Storage|
+ SKILLS=Python|
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=|
+ MENTORS=jungleboyj and e0ne on IRC channel #openstack-cinder @ freenode |
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
+ PROGRAM=
 }}
   {{InternshipIdea|
-  TITLE=Zaqar - Implement support for binary data in the websocket transport |
+  TITLE=Eliminate Redundant Downloads of Uncached Images|
-  DESCRIPTION=Enable Zaqar to store and forward messages with binary content through the websocket transport |
+ DESCRIPTION=An important component in the amount of time it takes to boot a new virtual machine is how long it takes to get the image being used from backend storage down to the host.  To speed this up, Glance has optional caching middleware that for some back ends (specifically, OpenStack Swift), significantly improves performance.  The problem is that the cache is kind of stupid, and in the scenario where someone wants to boot 1000 VMs from the same image, each request will discover that the image isn't cached, and will initiate a download from the storage backend, resulting in severely degraded performance.
-  DIFFICULTY=Medium |
-  TOPICS=Zaqar |
+There are some complexities to improving the caching middleware that are discussed in a Glance specification document: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/glance-specs/specs/untargeted/glance/duplicate-downloads.html .  In addition to coding, you will get exposure to working in an open-source community from the design phase through implementation, because your first task will be to re-propose the spec to the Glance community so that it can be reviewed and re-approved. (Don't worry, this won't drag on because it was already approved once; it is untargeted because the original developer was reassigned to a different project.)  This is an interesting project that will touch several Glance components: the API server, the caching middleware, and the glance_store library.  And, of course, you'll be adding good tests.|
+ DIFFICULTY=Low to Medium (you don't need previous OpenStack experience, but you need to be self-motivated enough to learn the components of Glance and how they interact)|
+ TOPICS=Glance|
+ SKILLS=Python|
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=General distributed systems knowledge|
+ MENTORS=jokke_ on IRC channel #openstack-glance @ freenode |
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
+ PROGRAM=
+}}
+{{InternshipIdea|
+ TITLE=Transform legacy notifications to the new versioned framework in Nova|
+  DESCRIPTION=Help transforming legacy Nova notifications to a new versioned framework. Students applying for this task will learn about Nova and the oslo.messaging library, and will help transforming the legacy notifications of Nova to a proper versioned API using an already established framework. Check for more details on this page https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova/VersionedNotificationTransformation|
+  DIFFICULTY=Medium|
+  TOPICS=OpenStack Nova|
   SKILLS=Python |
-  EXTRA_SKILLS=Websocket |
+  EXTRA_SKILLS=|
-  MENTORS=vkmc |
+  MENTORS=gibi on IRC channel #openstack-nova @ freenode |
-  STATUS=None |
+  STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
-  PROGRAM=Outreach Dec-Apr 2016
+  PROGRAM=
 }}
- {{InternshipIdea|
+{{InternshipIdea|
-  TITLE=Murano - Implementation of tagging heat stacks, created by murano |
+  TITLE=Policy Testing|
-  DESCRIPTION=Allow attributing a set of simple string-based tags to stacks and optionally the ability to hide stacks with certain tags by default |
+  DESCRIPTION=WIth all the system-scope work coming down the pipe and landing in Queens, we need to be prepared to rethink out test_v3_protection.py test module. This is the module responsible for making it so policies are doing what they should. Since we're adding a few new combinations with system scope, this should result in a test explosion that could be difficult to maintain and understand.
-  DIFFICULTY=Medium |
-  TOPICS=Murano |
+*Can we come up with a way to flexibly test different policy cases
+*Refactor current coverage
+*Integration with Patrole|
+  DIFFICULTY=Medium|
+  TOPICS=OpenStack Keystone|
   SKILLS=Python |
-  EXTRA_SKILLS=REST API|
+  EXTRA_SKILLS=|
-  MENTORS=efedorova |
+  MENTORS=hrybacki and lbragstad on IRC channel #openstack-keystone @ freenode |
-  STATUS=Started |
+  STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
-  PROGRAM=Outreach Dec-Apr 2016
+  PROGRAM=
 }}
 {{InternshipIdea|
-TITLE=Sahara - Improve anti-affinity behavior for cluster creation |
+ TITLE=Flask support|
-DESCRIPTION=Enable sahara to distribute node creation in a more equitable manner with respect to compute hardware affinity. This will involve examining how sahara currently places nodes requesting anti-affinity into a server group, and then creating a solution for distributing the requested nodes. One possibility is for sahara to create more server groups and place nodes in those groups in a round-robin fashion. |
+ DESCRIPTION=
-DIFFICULTY=Medium-Advanced |
+We have a home-grown WSGI implementation when there are suitable frameworks to do that lifting for us. We can get rid of a wheel to maintain by moving to a framework and ditching the home-grown implementation. We've talked about moving to Flask for a while. The benefits would be less maintenance of a home-grown implementation.|
-TOPICS=Sahara |
+ DIFFICULTY=Medium|
-SKILLS=Python |
+ TOPICS=OpenStack Keystone|
-EXTRA_SKILLS=Distributed computing |
+ SKILLS=Python |
-MENTORS=elmiko |
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=|
-STATUS=None |
+ MENTORS=TBA |
-PROGRAM=Outreach Dec-Apr 2016
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
+ PROGRAM=
 }}
 {{InternshipIdea|
-TITLE=Neutron - Metering agent add port statistics |
+ TITLE=Native SAML|
-DESCRIPTION=Neutron the metering agent collects statistics regarding bandwidth usage. Right now it only measure the bandwidth used by routers. The idea is to extend it and provide statistics also for ports. In the first implementation only openvswitch will be supported, since we will use openvswitch tools to get the port statistics. The first step will be getting familiar with the metering agent and with Neutron in general. Then you will approach openvswitch tools and think about how to use them for this project. After that you can reach out to the community to collect and discuss ideas. Neutron folks are pretty active on #openstack-neutron channel most of the time and would be willing to share their opinions on this or any other project. You'll submit your code upstream and address the comments you get till your patch gets merged.  |
+ DESCRIPTION=Currently, federation requires the use of Apache plugins to do the SAML processing. We want to experiment with a piece of middleware that can go into keystone paste pipeline to process SAML according to specification. This will make federation easier to configure for deployers and it has the ability to reduce a mapping currently used in federation (assertions -> env var, env vars -> keystone mappings).|
-DIFFICULTY=Medium-Advanced |
+ DIFFICULTY=Medium|
-TOPICS=Neutron |
+ TOPICS=OpenStack Keystone|
-SKILLS=Python |
+ SKILLS=Python |
-EXTRA_SKILLS=Networking, OVS |
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=|
-MENTORS=rossella_s |
+ MENTORS=cmurphy and rodrigods on IRC channel #openstack-keystone @ freenode |
-STATUS=None |
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
-PROGRAM=Outreach Dec-Apr 2016
+ PROGRAM=
 }}
 {{InternshipIdea|
-TITLE=Neutron - Pluggable IPAM support for host-dependent IP address allocation |
+ TITLE=Make keystone a fully-fledged IdP|
-DESCRIPTION=Some use cases would like the IP address(es) that Neutron allocates to a VM to depend on the compute host that Nova chooses for that VM. For example, in the Calico approach where data is routed between compute hosts, it's desirable for the IP addresses that are used on a given host (or rack) to be clustered within a small IP prefix, so that the routes to those IP addresses can be aggregated. Neutron's new pluggable IPAM facility is the main ingredient needed for this, but two other ingredients are needed as well. (1) Review, understanding and enhancement of the port setup exchange between Nova and Neutron, such that Neutron can choose an IP address _after_ Nova has chosen the compute host. (2) Design and coding of a way to pass the chosen host into the pluggable IPAM module, so that the module can take the host into account. Demonstration of this all working will also require (3) A sample pluggable IPAM module that allocates IP addresses in some host-aware way.
+ DESCRIPTION=Currently, keystone can act as an IdP but only in a non-standard in-house-designed auth flow, not with WebSSO. We could implement the rest of the WebSSO standard in keystone.
+https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1470205
+This could be a good warm-up bug for either this or the Native SAML project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1641625|
+ DIFFICULTY=Medium|
+ TOPICS=OpenStack Keystone|
+ SKILLS=Python |
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=|
+ MENTORS=TBA |
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
+ PROGRAM=
+}}
-This is a challenging but interesting project. Stages of the work will include becoming familiar with the relevant parts of Neutron; writing a spec for the work, and evolving this as feedback is received; and coding, and again evolving this as comments are received, until it's all done!  |
+ {{InternshipIdea|
-DIFFICULTY=Medium-Advanced |
+ TITLE=OpenStack Manila Integration with OpenStack CLI (OSC)|
-TOPICS=Neutron |
+ DESCRIPTION=OpenStackClient (aka OSC) is a command-line client for OpenStack that brings the command set for Compute, Identity, Image, Object Store and Volume APIs together in a single shell with a uniform command structure. OSC primary goal is to provide a unified shell command structure and a common language to describe operations in OpenStack. Manila basic commands should be added to OSC client. This will be helpful for user to provide a unified shell command structure to describe operations in OpenStack. |
-SKILLS=Python |
+ DIFFICULTY=Low|
-EXTRA_SKILLS=Networking |
+ TOPICS=OpenStack Manila|
-MENTORS=neiljerram |
+ SKILLS=Ruby|
-STATUS=None |
+ EXTRA_SKILLS=Python|
-PROGRAM=Outreach Dec-Apr 2016
+ MENTORS=enriquetaso and vkmc on IRC channel #openstack-manila @ freenode|
+ STATUS=Looking for candidates.|
+ PROGRAM=Outreachy May-Aug 2019 candidates.
 }}
-[[Past internship ideas]]
-[[Category: Internship]]

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List of Ideas for Internships

Coding