Posts in 2022
Kubernetes is Moving on From Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps
By Sergey Kanzhelev (Google), Jim Angel (Google), Davanum Srinivas (VMware), Shannon Kularathna (Google), Chris Short (AWS), Dawn Chen (Google) | Friday, January 07, 2022 in Blog
Kubernetes is removing dockershim in the upcoming v1.24 release. We're excited to reaffirm our community values by supporting open source container runtimes, enabling a smaller kubelet, and increasing engineering velocity for teams using Kubernetes. …
Posts in 2021
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
By Andrei Kvapil (WEDOS) | Wednesday, December 22, 2021 in Blog
When you own two data centers, thousands of physical servers, virtual machines and hosting for hundreds of thousands sites, Kubernetes can actually simplify the management of all these things. As practice has shown, by using Kubernetes, you can …
Using Admission Controllers to Detect Container Drift at Runtime
By Saifuding Diliyaer (Box) | Tuesday, December 21, 2021 in Blog
Illustration by Munire Aireti At Box, we use Kubernetes (K8s) to manage hundreds of micro-services that enable Box to stream data at a petabyte scale. When it comes to the deployment process, we run kube-applier as part of the GitOps workflows with …
What's new in Security Profiles Operator v0.4.0
By Jakub Hrozek, Juan Antonio Osorio, Paulo Gomes, Sascha Grunert | Friday, December 17, 2021 in Blog
The Security Profiles Operator (SPO) is an out-of-tree Kubernetes enhancement to make the management of seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor profiles easier and more convenient. We're happy to announce that we recently released v0.4.0 of the operator, which …
Kubernetes 1.23: StatefulSet PVC Auto-Deletion (alpha)
By Matthew Cary (Google) | Thursday, December 16, 2021 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.23 introduced a new, alpha-level policy for StatefulSets that controls the lifetime of PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs) generated from the StatefulSet spec template for cases when they should be deleted automatically when the StatefulSet …
Kubernetes 1.23: Prevent PersistentVolume leaks when deleting out of order
By Deepak Kinni (VMware) | Wednesday, December 15, 2021 in Blog
PersistentVolume (or PVs for short) are associated with Reclaim Policy. The Reclaim Policy is used to determine the actions that need to be taken by the storage backend on deletion of the PV. Where the reclaim policy is Delete, the expectation is …
Kubernetes 1.23: Kubernetes In-Tree to CSI Volume Migration Status Update
By Jiawei Wang (Google) | Friday, December 10, 2021 in Blog
The Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure has already been beta since v1.17. CSI migration was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.14. Since then, SIG Storage and other Kubernetes special …
Kubernetes 1.23: Pod Security Graduates to Beta
By Jim Angel (Google), Lachlan Evenson (Microsoft) | Thursday, December 09, 2021 in Blog
With the release of Kubernetes v1.23, Pod Security admission has now entered beta. Pod Security is a built-in admission controller that evaluates pod specifications against a predefined set of Pod Security Standards and determines whether to admit or …
Kubernetes 1.23: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 Networking Reaches GA
By Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft) | Wednesday, December 08, 2021 in Blog
"When will Kubernetes have IPv6?" This question has been asked with increasing frequency ever since alpha support for IPv6 was first added in k8s v1.9. While Kubernetes has supported IPv6-only clusters since v1.18, migration from IPv4 to …
Kubernetes 1.23: The Next Frontier
By Kubernetes 1.23 Release Team | Tuesday, December 07, 2021 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.23, the last release of 2021! This release consists of 47 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 17 enhancements are moving to beta, and 19 enhancements are entering alpha. Also, …