Google Summer of Code Ideas

Previous years ideas

2015
2016

Add functionality to Cockpit UI for Podman Containers

Summary

Podman is a container runtime providing very similar features as Docker. Cockpit can manage Docker containers through Docker plugin. The goal of this project is to extend the existing POC and introduce new features in Podman cockpit UI in order offer an experience similar to the Docker cockpit page. The plugin will be written in React.

Required

JavaScript (ideally React https://reactjs.org/)
Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills

Familiarity with Python
Experience working in Linux distributions
Familiarity with container technologies (podman or docker)
Familiarity with varlink (https://varlink.org/)
Familiarity with D-BUS

Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Rewrite Network Manager plugin to use React instead of jquery

Summary

Cockpit offers a user interface for networking through NetworkManager. It uses NetworkManager's DBus APIs to interact with the system's network configuration. Currently this plugin is written in jquery and we would like to rewrite that to React.