Internship ideas

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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

Go and Container related projects in OpenStack

Go Common/Client Library, others. See https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/go-and-containers for ideas

Difficulty	Medium
Topics
Required skills	Python Go
Extra skills
Mentor	dims on #openstack-dev channel @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Kuryr-Kubernetes

Add introspection HTTP REST points to the Kubernetes API watchers

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	OpenStack Kuryr, Kubernetes, Flask, HTTP
Required skills	Python
Extra skills	API design
Mentor	apuimedo on IRC channel #openstack-kuryr @ freenode
Status	Looking for candidates.
Program

Keystone/Infra - Improving Keystone jobs for new scenarios

We want to make sure the currently jobs on Jenkins cover the new features on Keystone, such as fernet tokens, v3 API and functional tests

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	Keystone, Infra, CI
Required skills	Python
Extra skills	Tests on CI, but we'll teach you
Mentor	raildo
Status	No longer taking applicants
Program

Ceph's RBD incremental backups for Cinder

Cinder is the OpenStack Block Storage service in charge of providing on demand, self-service access to Block Storage resources. Besides providing block storage (volumes) for instances it also has a specific service to manage all backup operations related to those volumes, like creating, restoring, and deleting backups.

Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file system storage in a single unified storage cluster designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. And RBD is the Block Storage part.

Within the Backup Cinder Service there are multiple backup drivers, one of these drivers is the RBD backup driver, which was the first one that implemented the possibility of doing incremental backups. But users could not chose whether they wanted to do full or incremental backups, as these were automatic -not user driven- and were only possible for volumes that were also stored in a Ceph cluster.

After a couple of releases a generic incremental mechanism was introduced that allowed users to create incremental backups on demand regardless of the backend where the source volume was stored, but the RBD driver was not updated to support this new mechanism.

Later on the Backup service was decoupled from the Cinder Volume service inadvertently causing the RBD driver to lose the Ceph to Ceph incremental backup feature.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, would be to implement the incremental backup feature in the RBD backup driver.

This feature allows multiple levels of perfection, being the primary objective to provide the generic mechanism that allows on-demand incremental backups from any source volume backup while preserving backward compatibility with old deployments. As a secondary optional objective the existing optimized mechanism could be fixed to allow better performance for Ceph to Ceph backups.

Difficulty	Medium
Topics	Storage, Cinder, Ceph, RBD, Backup
Required skills	Python
Extra skills	None
Mentor	geguileo on IRC channel #openstack-cinder @ freenode. I'm a native Spanish speaker, so if the thought of having all your communications in English seems a little daunting don't worry, we may resort to Spanish if we find ourselves in a pinch.  ;-)
Status	Looking for Candidates.
Program