Project Calico 3.30+ Hackathon: Show Us What You Can Build!

Build the Future of Cloud-Native Networking! 🚀 🔥 What’s in the Toolkit? 🛠️ Hackathon Starter Kit 💡 Inspiration: What Can You Build? $1,750 in Total Cash Prizes! 🗓️ Mark Your Calendars ⚖️ Judging Criteria: How to Win The Calico community moves fast. With the releases of Calico 3.30 and 3.31 , brings improvements in scalability, network security, and visibility. Now, we want to see what YOU can do with them! We’re excited to officially invite you to the Project Calico 3.30+ Community Hackathon. Whether you’re a seasoned eBPF expert or a newcomer to the Gateway API, we welcome your innovation and your ideas! Table of Contents What’s in the Toolkit? Hackathon Starter Kit (GitHub) Inspiration: What Can You Build? Prizes & Swag Hackathon Timeline Judging Criteria: How to Win Register Now What’s in the Toolkit? Hackathon Starter Kit (GitHub) Inspiration: What Can You Build? Prizes & Swag Hackathon Timeline Judging Criteria: How to Win Register Now What’s in the Toolkit? Hackathon Starter Kit (GitHub) Inspiration: What Can You Build? Prizes & Swag Hackathon Timeline Judging Criteria: How to Win Register Now We’ve packed Calico 3.30+ with powerful features ready for you to hack on: 🔹 Goldmane & Whisker: High-performance flow insights meets a sleek, operator-friendly UI. 🔹 Staged Policies: The “Safety First” way to test Zero Trust before enforcing it. 🔹 Calico Ingress Gateway: Modern, Envoy-powered traffic management via the Gateway API. 🔹 Calico Cloud Ready: Connect open-source clusters to a free-forever, read-only tier for instant visualization and troubleshooting. 🔹 IPAM for Load Balancers: Consistent IP strategies for MetalLB and beyond. 🔹 Advanced QoS: Fine-grained bandwidth and packet rate controls. No need to start from a blank screen. Use these progressive GitHub guides to stand up your environment and verify your features in minutes. Set up a 3-node Kind cluster and install Calico in under 5 minutes.