LFX Mentorship
Cloud Native Buildpacks
About the Organization
Pack is the reference implementation of a Cloud Native Buildpacks platform used to build application images in multiple organizations. Because all developers want their code to build and deploy as quickly as possible, small speedups in pack can have significant benefits, and slow-downs in pack are undesirable. Today, pack has no benchmark suite that would safe-guard against regressions in execution speed. Expected Outcome: The mentee will create a benchmark suite around some critical path sections identified with help from maintainers. The mentee will be supported in applying profiling tools to identify possible speedups, hopefully leading to at least one user-facing performance improvement.
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Technical Topics & Focus Areas
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Past Projects
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Design and implement Buildpack Registry Search
IntermediateThe Buildpack Registry (https://github.com/buildpacks/rfcs/blob/main/text/0022-client-side-buildpack-registry.md) is a place to publish, store, and discover buildpacks. It will provide a centralized service that platforms can use to resolve a buildpack ID and version into a concrete buildpack that can be downloaded and used. The search service will extend the existing [registry index stored in git](https://github.com/buildpacks/registry-index) in a way that can be consumed on the web as defined in this RFC (https://github.com/buildpacks/rfcs/blob/main/text/0068-buildpack-registry-search-api.md).
Proof of concept making multiarch images with buildkit (2024 Term 1)
IntermediateA proof of concept to add buildkit support to pack in order to build multi-arch images. Pack is the reference implementation of a Cloud Native Buildpacks platform used to build application images from source code. Expected Outcome: Multi-arch support has been one of the most requested features for Cloud Native Buildpacks, and this would allow end-users/developers to build multi-arch images with the pack cli.
Multi-Architecture Builds Support
IntermediateThe rise of ARM processors has created new binary targets for pre-compiled executables. Additionally, there are tales of widespread use of operating systems that aren't linux? In the ideal case a `pack` user could create a build for an abritrary architecture and operating system, regardless of the host system they used to run the command. Expected outcome: Improved multi-architecture (including ARM) and multi-os "cross-compilation" support in [pack](https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/) Upstream Issue (URL): https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/issues/1459 and https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/issues/1460
Pack Performance enhancements
IntermediatePack is the reference implementation of a Cloud Native Buildpacks platform used to build application images in multiple organizations. Because all developers want their code to build and deploy as quickly as possible, small speedups in pack can have significant benefits, and slow-downs in pack are undesirable. Today, pack has no benchmark suite that would safe-guard against regressions in execution speed. Expected Outcome: The mentee will create a benchmark suite around some critical path sections identified with help from maintainers. The mentee will be supported in applying profiling tools to identify possible speedups, hopefully leading to at least one user-facing performance improvement.