Outreachy
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Jenkins X is happy to announce our participation in the Outreachy program running from December 2019 to March 2020.
Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved by providing “a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout the year and offer focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.” The internships are for three-months, during which mentees work on specific projects.
Organisations that participate in Outreachy include Apache, CNCF Tracing, Mozilla, GNOME, the Linux Kernel, GNU Guix, Wikimedia, Debian, Git, Tekton, Jenkins, and Jenkins X. These organisations outline specific projects for the interns to work on and provide remote mentors.
Please see Outreachy’s site for more information about the program, such as its purpose, eligibility requirements, and how to apply.
About Jenkins X
Jenkins X is an open source, opinionated way to do continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) on Kubernetes. As such, it provides a modern, best practices approach to CI/CD for cloud native applications.
Jenkins X aids developers in provisioning Kubernetes clusters, automates CI/CD, provides different virtual environments for development, staging, and production using Kubernetes namespaces, and provides preview environments for pull requests.
Jenkins X projects for Outreachy
Jenkins X has two projects for Outreachy applicants to engage with:
Create a Cloud Storage backed Helm repository for Jenkins X, replacing ChartMuseum
Mentor: Hardy Ferentschik
As part of the Jenkins X workflow, Helm charts are created which need to be deployed and made available. This project would replace ChartMuseum with a cloud storage bucket to host and serve Helm charts.
Improve the Jenkins X Apps Framework
Mentor: David Conde
The Jenkins X Apps Framework is a mechanism used to extend the functionality of Jenkins X. The goal of this project is to improve the Apps Framework User Guide and to create a Jenkins X app.
Ask us questions
We welcome applicants to join our slack channels and our office hours. We’d be happy to answer your questions and guide you with your pull requests!
Talk to us on our slack channels, which are part of the Kubernetes slack. Join Kubernetes slack here, and find us on our channels:
- #jenkins-x-dev for developers of Jenkins X
- #jenkins-x-user for users of Jenkins X
We also have online office hours, during which we talk about new developments in Jenkins X and you are welcome to ask us questions, every other Thursday at 4pm UK (BST) / 11am US Eastern / 8am US Pacific.
Next office hours are on 3 October. Join us here: https://zoom.us/j/397862697
We’d love your help to make Jenkins X even more awesome and welcome your participation!
image by Ashley McNamara, creative commons license
Please note: the contribution period of the application process to Outreachy starts today, 1 October. Please remember that Outreachy’s deadline is Nov. 5, 2019 at 4pm UTC to record your contributions and create a final application. Read about Outreachy’s application process here.
Interested in applying? Want to read articles from those who have participated in Outreachy? See here and here.