Access to real infrastructure is one of the biggest barriers for people who want to learn Kubernetes and contribute to open source. To lower that barrier, the Cloud Native Taiwan User Group created Infra Labs, a community-supported platform that provides free infrastructure resources for students, developers, and open source communities in Taiwan.

This talk shares two connected stories: how a local community built shared infrastructure to support learning and collaboration, and how ChengHao Yang used Infra Labs to start learning Kubernetes in 2023, wrote 30 articles, contributed to Kubespray in 2024, became a reviewer, and later became a Kubespray maintainer in 2025. The session shows how community-built infrastructure can reduce barriers, create opportunities, and help grow the next generation of open source contributors.