This is a proposed project for Google Summer of Code

• Skill level: entry/junior
• Skills required: ML, AI, git, python, shell, networking, markdown (for docs)
• Mentor(s): Fernando F. Mancera, Iñigo Huguet, Wen Liang

• Contacts (IRC & email):
  ffmancera@riseup.net
  ihuguet@redhat.com
  wenliang@redhat.com

• Idea description:

NetworkManager is the standard Linux network configuration tool suite. It supports a large range of networking setups, from desktop to servers and mobile and integrates well with popular desktop environments and server configuration management tools.

Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages host networking settings in a declarative manner. The networking state is described by a pre-defined schema. Reporting of current state and changes to it (desired state) both conform to the schema.

Linux System Roles is a project related to Ansible, a tool for automating configuration management, application deployment and software provisioning. The goal of linux system roles is to provide a consistent user interface, abstracting from any particular implementation of the linux subsystems, but trying to get the most out of the particular libraries on each one of them. The Network Linux System Role currently provides a unique configuration interface for network-scripts and NetworkManager.

While it is rather easy for users to describe in natural language what they would like to configure, it can be hard to find the right options or using the right syntax in configuration files. AI provides a way to use natural language. As part of the internship, the projects should be enhanced to provide user support TUI based on prompts such as “Configure network devices eth0 and eth1 in a linux bridge”.

• What are we looking for:

  • Get in touch with the Upstream (Fedora and NM)
  • Basic ML/AL and LLM knowledge is preffered
  • Building a custom LLM which will be trained with dataset of NM and NMstate
  • Build TUI for prompt and output
  • Write documentation
  • Python tests and CI automation

• Notes & references:

https://networkmanager.dev/docs
https://nmstate.io/
https://github.com/linux-system-roles/network
https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-useful-terminal-tui-on-linux-with-dialog-and-jq/

• Estimation
  Week1
  Upstream and community bonding
  Week 2
  Knowing mentors and Project structure
  Week 3
  Basic training LLM
  Week 4
  NM and all things around + Blog per 2 week
  Week 5
  Sync up twice a week + public meeting + post updates in ML + Fedora Blog
  Evaluation
  Week 6
  Project structure and maybe some system req
  Week 7
  Generate outputs for a set of command → a) save to local storage b) give it a name and store + apply with <nmcli/nmstate>
  Week 8
  Parsing of the prompts + sanitize the output
  Week 9
  Training the dataset + finding the dataset
  Week 10
  Training the dataset + finding the dataset
  Week 11
  Evaluate training and sum the findings
  Week 12
  Final Evaluation