Project page: Completion of DaemonSet mode for the Prometheus Agent
Organisation: Prometheus Operator
Mentor(s): Jayapriya Pai, M Viswanath Sai
Proposal: Dhruv Puri - Prometheus Operator (GSoC 2025)
See CONTRIBUTIONS.md for a detailed list of all my contributions to the Prometheus Operator project during GSoC 2025.
The project brought the Prometheus Agent's DaemonSet mode in Prometheus Operator to full production readiness. This involved addressing missing functionalities, improving configuration validation, enhancing reliability, and providing comprehensive documentation. The ultimate goal was to offer a scalable, efficient, and fully supported way to run Prometheus Agent across Kubernetes nodes. This was achieved by integrating remaining features like using CEL for CRD validation to provide immediate feedback along with adding runtime checks as a fallback for older Kubernetes versions. Furthermore, investigating EndpointSlice for scalability and finally, adding detailed documentation and example manifests.