GSoC 2025: Meet Our Projects and Contributors 🚀

Introduction 📚 Project Highlights Project 1: Kubeflow Platform Enhancements Project 2: KServe Models Web Application Modernization Project 3: Istio CNI and Ambient Mesh Project 4: Deploying Kubeflow with Helm Charts Project 5: JupyterLab Plugin for Kubeflow Project 6: Spark Operator with Kubeflow Notebooks Project 7: GPU Testing for LLM Blueprints Project 10: Support Volcano Scheduler in Kubeflow Trainer Project 12: Empowering Kubeflow Documentation with LLMs 🤖 🎉 Wrapping Up 👩‍💻 Want to Get Involved? Introduction 📚 Project Highlights Project 1: Kubeflow Platform Enhancements Project 2: KServe Models Web Application Modernization Project 3: Istio CNI and Ambient Mesh Project 4: Deploying Kubeflow with Helm Charts Project 5: JupyterLab Plugin for Kubeflow Project 6: Spark Operator with Kubeflow Notebooks Project 7: GPU Testing for LLM Blueprints Project 10: Support Volcano Scheduler in Kubeflow Trainer Project 12: Empowering Kubeflow Documentation with LLMs 🤖 Project 1: Kubeflow Platform Enhancements Project 2: KServe Models Web Application Modernization Project 3: Istio CNI and Ambient Mesh Project 4: Deploying Kubeflow with Helm Charts Project 5: JupyterLab Plugin for Kubeflow Project 6: Spark Operator with Kubeflow Notebooks Project 7: GPU Testing for LLM Blueprints Project 10: Support Volcano Scheduler in Kubeflow Trainer Project 12: Empowering Kubeflow Documentation with LLMs 🤖 🎉 Wrapping Up 👩‍💻 Want to Get Involved? Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 has been an exciting journey for the Kubeflow community! We are very grateful for Google and the open source community members dedication and effort. 🎉 This year, 9 contributors from around the world collaborated with mentors to improve different parts of the Kubeflow ecosystem — from infrastructure and CI/CD, to notebooks, ML workflows, and beyond. In this blog, we are highlighting all the projects that were part of GSoC 2025 , their goals, the impact they’ve created, and the amazing contributors behind them. 👉 You can explore the full list on our GSoC 2025 page. Below are the projects from this year’s GSoC. Each section includes a short summary, contributor details, and links to project resources. Contributor: Harshvir Potpose ( @akagami-harsh ) Mentors: Julius von Kohout ( @juliusvonkohout ) Overview: We need an up to date S3 storage with hard multi-tenancy and run our containers with PodSecurityStandards restricted. MinIO transitioned to the AGPLv3 license in 2021, creating significant compliance challenges for the project. This project addressed this critical blocker by implementing SeaweedFS as a production-ready replacement for MinIO. SeaweedFS offers a more permissive Apache 2.0 license while providing superior performance characteristics and enterprise-grade security and reliability. Key Outcomes: Provided S3 storage with hard multi-tenancy Successfully migrated to SeaweedFS as a secure replacement for MinIO and integrated it into Kubeflow Pipelines Eliminated MinIO’s licensing constraints by adopting SeaweedFS’s more permissive license model Implemented comprehensive CI tests for SeaweedFS deployment and namespace isolation functionality Strengthened the manifests repository’s CI pipeline and contributed to the dashboard migration efforts Enforcing PodSecurityStandards baseline/restricted Resources: 📄 Project Page ✍️ Personal Blog: Kubeflow Pipelines Embraces SeaweedFS Contributor: (GitHub: @LogicalGuy77 ) Mentors: Griffin Sullivan ( @Griffin-Sullivan ), Julius von Kohout ( @juliusvonkohout ) Overview: This project revived and modernized the KServe Models Web Application (Angular + Flask), the UI used to manage machine learning inference services in Kubeflow via KServe. What began as a small Node.