Outreachy.Started() : Go container related projects in Openstack

3 min readJan 5, 2018

BACKGROUND

This year I am taking part in outreachy round 15 what a happy moment for me :).

Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Inspired by an alumni I applied for the December — March cohort, I decided to give it a try with a lot of fear since I had not done any real world programming before.

For the transition from fear to the successful contributions I made during the application period, I give credit to my mentor Davanum Sirivanus (dims) and Joe Topjian (gophercloud maintainer). I came from zero openstack knowledge to now great gophercloud and kubernetes tinkerer and am not about to stop.

Outreachy on this part of the world began when I was announced as accepted that is after 9th November. We started off with an introductory call with my mentor Davanum Sirivanus (dims).

THE PROJECT

For the three months I will be working on Go container related projects in openstack. I have created a tracker to give summary of my progress . I will be working to deliver majorly these three mile stones:

Implementing openstack tests in kubernetes.
Add support for openstack in Kops.
Add support for openstack in autoscaler (if time allows).

WHAT I HAVE WORKED ON SO FAR

1. Setting up Environments

I began with doing a bit of house keeping and laying the ground for the internship. I basically:

I have documented the processes on the above links for any one to reference in the future.

2. Started Implementing openstack e2e tests in kubernetes

I started on e2e test implementation for openstack in kubernetes. I have a WIP pull request to get feedback as I work as there are more tests to implement.

3. Worked on other tasks

I also implemented a unit test to test a recently merged commit that provides for expanding of openstack volumes. The Pull request is still under review with more work in progress.

Add test for cinder expand volume.

I also opened a pull request for the open stack provider in kubernetes to support project name and ID instead of tenant id and name as the later is deprecated.

OpenStack cloud provider should support project instead of tenant

WHAT I WILL WORK ON NEXT

For the rest of this month, I will be:

Implementing openstack e2e tests in kubernetes.
Implementing tests for the stand alone kubernetes controller.

MY OUTREACHY TAKE AWAY SO FAR

I officially became a FOSS contributor

If you have been contributing to open source for long, you have probably forgotten the joy you had the first time you got a patch merged. Me I still remember and rejoice because it was two months a go when I started making contributions during my outreachy application. It was on gophercloud and I was so happy :-). This is a screen shot of PRs I opened while applying for outreachy.

I have learned a lot of skills

I have learned alot of Golang, source control but most importantly , I have learned and tinkered with openstack and kubernetes.

CONCLUSION

It has been a wonderful journey so far. I am having fun and learning as I contribute to open stack Go container related projects. Much thanks to my mentor dims for the time and help.