A comprehensive guide for new contributors to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem, compiled from real community conversations in the #cncf-new-contributors Slack channel spanning from November 2023 to December 2025.

This document represents the collective wisdom of hundreds of community interactions, distilled into actionable guidance for anyone looking to begin their journey in the cloud native open source world.

Some helpful commands

limactl start ./ubuntu2404.yaml limactl list

limactl shell ubuntu2404

limactl stop ubuntu2404 limactl restart ubuntu2404

Date: 2025-12-02 Scope: All staging modules in staging/src/k8s.io/

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of cross-dependencies between Kubernetes staging modules to identify opportunities for reducing coupling and module footprint. The analysis goes beyond Issue #127889 to examine the entire staging ecosystem.

Consolidated & Authoritative Reference Last Updated: November 18, 2025 Branch: add-support-for-postgres Version: 3.0 (Consolidated from multiple sources)

Author: Davanum Srinivas Date: Thu Nov 6 21:17:20 2025 Message: "refactoring mongodb specific code into store-client-sdk"

Impact: 134 files changed, 15,277 insertions(+), 3,875 deletions(-)

Author: Davanum Srinivas
Date: November 6, 2025
Scope: 134 files changed, 15,277 insertions(+), 3,875 deletions(-)
Impact: 19,152 total lines changed

1. Introduction
2. Core Architecture
3. Plugin Types Overview
4. Quick Start Guide
5. Problem Daemon Plugins
   • System Log Monitor

• Custom Plugin Monitor

Tools for analyzing Kubernetes API coverage from E2E test audit logs.

Copy the two python scripts from https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/experiment/audit to your local directory

The example below uses kubernetes/kubernetes#133132 which is a PR to add a new DRA test to conformance.