Posts in 2019

  • The Future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes

    Wednesday, April 17, 2019 in Blog

    Authors: Andrew Sy Kim (VMware), Mike Crute (AWS), Walter Fender (Google) Approximately 9 months ago, the Kubernetes community agreed to form the Cloud Provider Special Interest Group (SIG). The justification was to have a single governing SIG to own …

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  • Pod Priority and Preemption in Kubernetes

    Tuesday, April 16, 2019 in Blog

    Author: Bobby Salamat Kubernetes is well-known for running scalable workloads. It scales your workloads based on their resource usage. When a workload is scaled up, more instances of the application get created. When the application is critical for …

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  • Process ID Limiting for Stability Improvements in Kubernetes 1.14

    Monday, April 15, 2019 in Blog

    Author: Derek Carr Have you ever seen someone take more than their fair share of the cookies? The one person who reaches in and grabs a half dozen fresh baked chocolate chip chunk morsels and skitters off like Cookie Monster exclaiming “Om nom nom …

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  • Kubernetes 1.14: Local Persistent Volumes GA

    Thursday, April 04, 2019 in Blog

    Authors: Michelle Au (Google), Matt Schallert (Uber), Celina Ward (Uber) The Local Persistent Volumes feature has been promoted to GA in Kubernetes 1.14. It was first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes 1.7, and then beta in Kubernetes 1.10. The GA …

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  • Kubernetes v1.14 delivers production-level support for Windows nodes and Windows containers

    Monday, April 01, 2019 in Blog

    Authors: Michael Michael (VMware), Patrick Lang (Microsoft) The first release of Kubernetes in 2019 brings a highly anticipated feature - production-level support for Windows workloads. Up until now Windows node support in Kubernetes has been in …

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  • kube-proxy Subtleties: Debugging an Intermittent Connection Reset

    Friday, March 29, 2019 in Blog

    Author: Yongkun Gui, Google I recently came across a bug that causes intermittent connection resets. After some digging, I found it was caused by a subtle combination of several different network subsystems. It helped me understand Kubernetes …

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  • Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Minikube - now with Kubernetes 1.14 support

    Thursday, March 28, 2019 in Blog

    Author: Ihor Dvoretskyi, Developer Advocate, Cloud Native Computing Foundation A few days ago, the Kubernetes community announced Kubernetes 1.14, the most recent version of Kubernetes. Alongside it, Minikube, a part of the Kubernetes project, …

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  • Kubernetes 1.14: Production-level support for Windows Nodes, Kubectl Updates, Persistent Local Volumes GA

    Monday, March 25, 2019 in Blog

    Authors: The 1.14 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.14, our first release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.14 consists of 31 enhancements: 10 moving to stable, 12 in beta, and 7 net new. The main themes of this release are …

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  • Kubernetes End-to-end Testing for Everyone

    Friday, March 22, 2019 in Blog

    Author: Patrick Ohly (Intel) More and more components that used to be part of Kubernetes are now being developed outside of Kubernetes. For example, storage drivers used to be compiled into Kubernetes binaries, then were moved into stand-alone …

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  • A Guide to Kubernetes Admission Controllers

    Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Blog

    Author: Malte Isberner (StackRox) Kubernetes has greatly improved the speed and manageability of backend clusters in production today. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard in container orchestrators thanks to its flexibility, scalability, …

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