Add project details for Platform Scalability, Security, and Core Optimization in GSoC 2026

Signed-off-by: Harshit Nayan <[email protected]>

Author: LogicalGuy77

content/en/events/upcoming-events/gsoc-2026.md

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+### Project 3: Platform Scalability, Security, and Core Optimization
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+**Components:** Kubeflow Manifests, Kubeflow Pipelines, Kubeflow Training Operator
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+**Mentors:** [Julius von Kohout](https://github.com/juliusvonkohout), [Humair Khan](https://github.com/HumairAK)
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+**Contributor:** 
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+**Details:** As Kubeflow scales to environments with 1,000+ namespaces, core bottlenecks emerge. This project focuses on optimizing CRD controllers, improving multi-tenancy security, and hardening the platform. Key work areas include: refactoring the Profile Controller to use Metacontroller for a cleaner plugin system, migrating from Istio Gateway to the Kubernetes Gateway API and enabling Model Registry by default.
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+**Difficulty:** Hard
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+**Size:** 350 hours
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+**Related Issues/PR:**
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+- [Rootless Kubeflow](https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/issues/2528)
+- [Enable model-registry with UI by default](https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/pull/3318)
+- [Update kserve/kserve manifests from v0.16.0](https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/pull/3290)
+- [Fix kustomize warnings](https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/pull/3268)
+- [Migrate to gateway API](https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/pull/3094)
+- ["zero-trust" security / networking for training jobs](https://github.com/kubeflow/trainer/issues/2341)
+- [fix: variable namespaces for networkpolicies](https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/pull/3319)
+- [Recurring Runs Queue Throughput Optimization](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/12610)
+- [Add securityContext support for container components](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/12577)
+- [add gRPC metrics to api-server (RPS/latency), optimize execution spec reporting](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/12010)
+- [ConfigMap-based plugin system for profile controller](https://github.com/kubeflow/dashboard/pull/177)
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+**Skills Required/Preferred:**
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+- Go
+- Kubernetes
+- Python
+- Istio
+- Networking
+- Linux Security
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