OpenEverest at LFX Mentorship: Term 3, 2026

As you might have heard, OpenEverest takes part in the LFX Mentorship program. It is a paid program that lets developers contribute to open source projects, learn from mentors, and get paid along the way.

With OpenEverest’s transition to a modular architecture, we are focusing community effort on the providers and plugins ecosystems — and Term 3 is no exception. Now that the mentees have been selected, it is time to talk about what to expect.

A big congratulations to Aditya Pimpalkar and Abdul Moiz on being accepted into the program — we’re thrilled to have you both on board and can’t wait to build with you.

Object Storage provider

For this project, the mentee is well known in our community — Aditya Pimpalkar. He built the provider for CloudNativePG, so writing a provider is not a new endeavour for him.

This time the provider is not database-focused. We decided to cover the need for S3-compatible storage in OpenEverest. Since MinIO closed its doors to the community, there are a bunch of open source alternatives.

We looked at all of them and decided to go with SeaweedFS — at least for now. The reason is simple: it has a decent Kubernetes operator and is not as complex as Ceph. The other solutions are great too, and we might add them to OpenEverest at a later stage.

The provider’s code lives in openeverest/provider-seaweedfs. Aditya acts as the main maintainer and will be creating issues. As always, community contributions are very welcome.

The goal for now is to let OpenEverest users deploy an S3-compatible storage cluster. Later on, we will figure out whether we want to add bucket, user, and role management, or leave it to SeaweedFS itself. That might call for a generic plugin. Stay tuned, and keep an eye out for the first provider release.

Benchmark plugin

The mentee for this project is also well known in the community — Abdul Moiz. He has pushed various PRs into the core and adjacent repositories.

This project is more niche, more complex, and a lot of fun. It will let users benchmark their databases without leaving the OpenEverest UI.

We want a single plugin that runs tests across various database technologies using community-known tools (like pgbench for PostgreSQL). Results will be stored so users can compare them over time or across different configurations.

The architecture is taking shape in the openeverest/plugin-bench repository. As with the provider, issues will be created and contributions are welcome.

I’m personally very excited to see what we end up with by the end of this LFX Mentorship term.

Join the Community

Both projects are built in the open, and you don’t need a mentorship slot to take part — issues will be filed in each repository and contributions are very welcome.

• Contribute: Jump into provider-seaweedfs or plugin-bench, or browse our Good First Issues.
• Chat: Join the conversation in the CNCF Slack (channel: #openeverest-users) and drop by our bi-weekly community meetings.
• Mentorship: Explore all OpenEverest LFX projects and watch for the next term.