By Jed Smith, July 10, 2015
Originally published on the CoreOS blog (archived copy) . Re-published with the authors' permission.
Today we’re excited to build and collaborate with our community at the inaugural CoreOS hackathon. Even if you can’t join us at GopherCon in Denver, there are numerous ways to get involved and contribute.
Every project on GitHub includes helpful information on contributing that can be found in the CONTRIBUTING.md file. Be sure to look at it before you jump in and begin coding.
Serving as the backbone of many distributed systems, from Kubernetes to Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and beyond, etcd is a Go codebase and key-value store where the state of the art in distributed systems comes together. If your interests lie in consensus protocols, APIs and clustering, etcd has a number of areas where contribution is more than welcome.
CoreOS Linux is built for scale, and at scale, managing systemd can be a challenge. We created fleet to distribute init across the data center. fleet is used in nearly all CoreOS deployments to simplify administrative overhead. If you are interested in operational plumbing, there is no shortage of work to be done.
If software defined networks and the low levels of data center connectivity are in your interests, you can help build flannel, the container-friendly software networking fabric.
Jump in with the rkt team and help create a secure, composable and standards based container runtime starting with these requests. Help shape the future of the container ecosystem and stay up to date with our rkt mailing list too.
With the recent announcement to collaborate on the Open Container Project (OCP), stay tuned for updates on how we will work together and work with OCP and rkt.
For any of you attending GopherCon, here are the details of the hack day:
When: Friday, July 10, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MDT
Where: Room 403, Denver Convention Center
Schedule:
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Brandon Philips, CoreOS Two Years in
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes talk
11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Russell Haering, ScaleFT
11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Micha Leuffen, Wercker
-LUNCH-
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Hack Day Competition
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Competition demos and winner announcement
We welcome your involvement and contributions to CoreOS projects. We wouldn’t be here without our contributors and there is much to be done!