By completing these challenges, you collect points and can redeem them for different types of rewards and experiences, examples of which include charitable donations, gift certificates, conference tickets and more. As advocates complete challenges and gain points, they’ll earn performance-related badges, move up in community tiers and participate in a fun community leaderboard.

My presentation at KubeCon, simply put, was a call for early signups. Those who’ve been piloting the program have, for the most part, had positive things to say about their experiences.

• “Great way of improving the community and documentation. The gamification of Kubernetes gave me more insight into the stack as well.”
  • Jonas Kint, Devops Engineer at Showpad
• _“A great way to engage with the kubernetes project and also help the community. Fun stuff.” _
  • Kevin Duane, Systems Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
• “K8sPort seems like an awesome idea for incentivising giving back to the community in a way that will hopefully cause more valuable help from more people than might usually be helping.”
  • William Stewart, Site Reliability Engineer at Superbalist

If you’re a contributing member of the Kubernetes community and you have an active GitHub account tied to the Kubernetes repository at GitHub, you can authenticate using your GitHub credentials and gain access to the K8sPort.

Beyond the challenges that get posted regularly, community members will be recognized and compile points for things they’re already doing today. This will be accomplished through the K8sPort’s full integration with GitHub and the core Kubernetes repository. Once you authenticate, you’ll automatically begin earning points and recognition for various contributions -- including logging issues, making pull requests, code commits & more.

--Ryan Quackenbush, Advocacy Programs Manager, Apprenda