Posts in 2018

  • Kubernetes 2018 North American Contributor Summit

    Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Blog

    Authors: Bob Killen (University of Michigan) Sahdev Zala (IBM), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) The 2018 North American Kubernetes Contributor Summit to be hosted right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle is shaping up to be the largest yet. It is an …

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  • 2018 Steering Committee Election Results

    Monday, October 15, 2018 in Blog

    Authors: Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF), Paris Pittman (Google) Results The Kubernetes Steering Committee Election is now complete and the following candidates came ahead to secure two year terms that start immediately: Aaron …

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  • Topology-Aware Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes

    Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Michelle Au (Google) The multi-zone cluster experience with persistent volumes is improving in Kubernetes 1.12 with the topology-aware dynamic provisioning beta feature. This feature allows Kubernetes to make intelligent decisions when …

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  • Kubernetes v1.12: Introducing RuntimeClass

    Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Tim Allclair (Google) Kubernetes originally launched with support for Docker containers running native applications on a Linux host. Starting with rkt in Kubernetes 1.3 more runtimes were coming, which lead to the development of the Container …

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  • Introducing Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes

    Tuesday, October 09, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Jing Xu (Google) Xing Yang (Huawei), Saad Ali (Google) Kubernetes v1.12 introduces alpha support for volume snapshotting. This feature allows creating/deleting volume snapshots, and the ability to create new volumes from a snapshot natively …

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  • Support for Azure VMSS, Cluster-Autoscaler and User Assigned Identity

    Monday, October 08, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Krishnakumar R (KK) (Microsoft), Pengfei Ni (Microsoft) Introduction With Kubernetes v1.12, Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) and cluster-autoscaler have reached their General Availability (GA) and User Assigned Identity is available as …

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  • Introducing the Non-Code Contributor’s Guide

    Thursday, October 04, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Noah Abrahams (InfoSiftr), Jonas Rosland (VMware), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) It was May 2018 in Copenhagen, and the Kubernetes community was enjoying the contributor summit at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, complete with the first run of the New …

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  • KubeDirector: The easy way to run complex stateful applications on Kubernetes

    Wednesday, October 03, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Thomas Phelan (BlueData) KubeDirector is an open source project designed to make it easy to run complex stateful scale-out application clusters on Kubernetes. KubeDirector is built using the custom resource definition (CRD) framework and …

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  • Building a Network Bootable Server Farm for Kubernetes with LTSP

    Tuesday, October 02, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Andrei Kvapil (WEDOS) In this post, I'm going to introduce you to a cool technology for Kubernetes, LTSP. It is useful for large baremetal Kubernetes deployments. You don't need to think about installing an OS and binaries on each node …

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  • Health checking gRPC servers on Kubernetes

    Monday, October 01, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Ahmet Alp Balkan (Google) gRPC is on its way to becoming the lingua franca for communication between cloud-native microservices. If you are deploying gRPC applications to Kubernetes today, you may be wondering about the best way to configure …

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