Explore the new Learn Kubernetes with Google website!

As Kubernetes has become a mainstream global technology, with 96% of organizations surveyed by the CNCF¹ using or evaluating Kubernetes for production use, it is now estimated that 31%² of backend developers worldwide are Kubernetes developers. To add to the growing popularity, the 2021 annual report¹ also listed close to 60 enhancements by special interest and working groups to the Kubernetes project. With so much information in the ecosystem, how can Kubernetes developers stay on top of the latest developments and learn what to prioritize to best support their infrastructure?

The new website Learn Kubernetes with Google brings together under one roof the guidance of Kubernetes experts—both from Google and across the industry—to communicate the latest trends in building your Kubernetes infrastructure. You can access knowledge in two formats.

One option is to participate in scheduled live events, which consist of virtual panels that allow you to ask questions to experts via a Q&A forum. Virtual panels last for an hour, and happen once quarterly. So far, we’ve hosted panels on building a multi-cluster infrastructure, the Dockershim deprecation, bringing High Performance Computing (HPC) to Kuberntes, and securing your services with Istio on Kubernetes. The other option is to pick one of the multiple on-demand series available. Series are made up of several 5-10 minute episodes and you can go through them at your own leisure. They cover different topics, including the Kubernetes Gateway API, the MCS API, Batch workloads, and Getting started with Kubernetes. You can use the search bar on the top right side of the website to look up specific topics.

As the cloud native ecosystem becomes increasingly complex, this website will continue to offer evergreen content for Kubernetes developers and users. We recently launched a new content category for ecosystem projects, which started by covering how to run Istio on Kubernetes. Soon, we will also launch a content category for developer tools, starting with Minikube.

Join hundreds of developers that are already part of the Learn Kubernetes with Google community! Bookmark the website, sign up for an event today, and be sure to check back regularly for new content.

By María Cruz, Program Manager – Google Open Source Programs Office

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1. CNCF Annual Survey 2021 ↩

2. The State of Cloud Native Development report by Slash Data, as cited on CNCF Annual Survey 2021 ↩

Get ready for Google Summer of Code 2023!

We are thrilled to announce the 2023 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and share the timeline with you to get involved! 2023 will be our 19th consecutive year of hosting GSoC and we could not be more excited to welcome more organizations, mentors, and new contributors into the program.

With just three weeks left in the 2022 program, we had an exciting year with 958 GSoC contributors completing their projects with 198 open source organizations.

Our 2022 contributors and mentors have given us extensive feedback and we are keeping the big changes we made this year, with one adjustment around eligibility described below.

• Increased flexibility in project lengths (10-22 weeks, not a set 12 weeks for everyone) allowed many people to be able to participate and to not feel rushed as they wrapped up their projects. We have 109 GSoC contributors wrapping up their projects over the next three weeks.

• Choice of project time commitment there are now two options, medium at ~175 hours or large at ~350 hours, with 47% and 53% GSoC contributors, respectively.

• Our most talked about change was GSoC being open to contributors new to open source software development (and not just to students anymore). For 2023, we are expanding the program to be open to students and to beginners in open source software development.

We are excited to launch the 2023 GSoC program and to continue to help grow the open source community. GSoC’s mission of bringing new contributors into open source communities is centered around mentorship and collaboration. We are so grateful for all the folks that continue to contribute, mentor, and get involved in open source communities year after year.

Interested in applying to the Google Summer of Code Program?

Open Source Organizations

Check out our website to learn what it means to be a participating organization. Watch our new GSoC Org Highlight videos and get inspired about projects that contributors have worked on in the past.

Think you have what it takes to participate as a mentor organization? Take a look through our mentor guide to learn about what it means to be part of Google Summer of Code, how to prepare your community, gather excited mentors, create achievable project ideas, and tips for applying. We welcome all types of open source organizations and encourage you to apply—it is especially exciting for us to welcome new orgs into the program and we hope you are inspired to get involved with our growing community.

Want to be a GSoC Contributor?

Are you new to open source development or a student? Are you eager to gain experience on real-world software development projects that will be used by thousands or millions of people? It is never too early to start thinking about what kind of open source organization you’d like to learn more about and how the application process works!

Watch our new ‘Introduction to GSoC’ video to see a quick overview of the program. Read through our contributor guide for important tips from past participants on preparing your proposal, what to think about if you wish to apply for the program, and everything you wanted to know about the program. We also hope you’re inspired by checking out the nearly 200 organizations that participated in 2022 and the 1,000+ projects that have been completed so far!

We encourage you to explore our website for other resources and continue to check for more information about the 2023 program.

You are welcome and encouraged to share information about the 2023 GSoC program with your friends, family, colleagues, and anyone you think may be interested in joining our community. We are excited to welcome many more contributors and mentoring organizations in the new year!

By Stephanie Taylor, Program Manager, and Perry Burnham, Associate Program Manager for the Google Open Source Programs Office

Google funds open source silicon manufacturing shuttles for GlobalFoundries PDK

In August, we released the Process Design Kit (PDK) for the GlobalFoundries 180nm MCU technology platform under the Apache 2.0 license. This open source PDK, resulting from our ongoing pathfinding partnership with GlobalFoundries technology, offers open source silicon designers new capabilities for high volume production, affordability, and more voltage options by including the following standard cells:

• Digital standard cells' libraries (7-track and 9-track)
• Low (3.3V), Medium (5V, 6V) and High (10V) voltage devices
• SRAM macros (64x8, 128x8, 256x8, 512x8)
• I/O and primitives (Resistors, Capacitors, Transistors, eFuses) cells' libraries

Following the announcement about GlobalFoundries joining Google’s open source silicon initiative, we are now sponsoring a series of no-cost OpenMPW shuttle runs for the GF180MCU PDK in the coming months.

Those shuttles will leverage the existing OpenMPW shuttle infrastructure based on the OpenLane automated design flow with the same Caravel harness and the Efabless platform for project submissions.

Each shuttle run will select 40 projects based on the following criteria:

• Design sources must be released publicly under an open source license.
• Projects must be reproducible from design sources and the GF180MCU PDK.
• Projects must be submitted within the shuttle deadline (projects submitted earlier get additional chances to be selected).
• Projects must pass the pre-manufacturing checks.

The first shuttle GF-MPW-0 will be a test shuttle, with submissions open from Oct. 31, 2022 to Dec. 5, 2022. It will be used as a way to validate together with the community the integration of the new PDK with the open source silicon toolchain and the Caravel harness; further shuttles will have a longer project application window and improved testing.

We encourage you to re-submit your previous OpenMPW shuttle projects to this shuttle as a way to validate their portability across open source PDKs:

• Go to developers.google.com/silicon.
• Navigate to the "Create a new Project" link.
• Follow the instructions to integrate your project into the last version of the caravel_user_project template.
• Make sure you select the right variant of the GF180MCU PDK (5LM_1TM_9K) by exporting the following environment variable PDK=gf180mcuC in your workspace prior to running any commands.
• Submit your project for manufacturing on the Efabless platform.

We're excited to see designers leveraging this program by porting their existing projects that were submitted previously to OpenMPW shuttles, but also by designing new projects that target the GF180MCU PDK, finding paths together to research and advance the open source silicon ecosystem.

By Ethan Mahintorabi, Software Engineer and Johan Euphrosine, Developer Programs Engineer – Hardware Toolchains Team, and Aaron Cunningham, Technical Program Manager – Google Open Source Programs Office