Posts in 2018

  • 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) Update (December 2021): Kubernetes now has built-in gRPC health probes starting in v1.23. To learn more, see Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes. This article was originally written about an external …

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  • Kubernetes 1.12: Kubelet TLS Bootstrap and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Move to General Availability

    Thursday, September 27, 2018 in Blog

    Author: The 1.12 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.12, our third release of 2018! Today’s release continues to focus on internal improvements and graduating features to stable in Kubernetes. This newest version …

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  • Hands On With Linkerd 2.0

    Tuesday, September 18, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Thomas Rampelberg (Buoyant) Linkerd 2.0 was recently announced as generally available (GA), signaling its readiness for production use. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get Linkerd 2.0 up and running on your Kubernetes cluster …

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