Posts in 2020
GSoD 2020: Improving the API Reference Experience
By Philippe Martin | Friday, December 04, 2020 in Blog
Editor's note: Better API references have been my goal since I joined Kubernetes docs three and a half years ago. Philippe has succeeded fantastically. More than a better API reference, though, Philippe embodied the best of the Kubernetes community …
Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker
By Jorge Castro, Duffie Cooley, Kat Cosgrove, Justin Garrison, Noah Kantrowitz, Bob Killen, Rey Lejano, Dan “POP” Papandrea, Jeffrey Sica, Davanum “Dims” Srinivas | Wednesday, December 02, 2020 in Blog
Update: Kubernetes support for Docker via dockershim is now removed. For more information, read the removal FAQ. You can also discuss the deprecation via a dedicated GitHub issue. Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20. …
Dockershim Deprecation FAQ
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 in Blog
Update: There is a newer version of this article available. This document goes over some frequently asked questions regarding the Dockershim deprecation announced as a part of the Kubernetes v1.20 release. For more detail on the deprecation of Docker …
Cloud native security for your clusters
By Pushkar Joglekar | Wednesday, November 18, 2020 in Blog
Over the last few years a small, security focused community has been working diligently to deepen our understanding of security, given the evolving cloud native infrastructure and corresponding iterative deployment practices. To enable sharing of …
Remembering Dan Kohn
By Kubernetes Steering Committee | Monday, November 02, 2020 in Blog
Dan Kohn was instrumental in getting Kubernetes and CNCF community to where it is today. He shared our values, motivations, enthusiasm, community spirit, and helped the Kubernetes community to become the best that it could be. Dan loved getting …
Announcing the 2020 Steering Committee Election Results
By Kaslin Fields | Monday, October 12, 2020 in Blog
The 2020 Steering Committee Election is now complete. In 2019, the committee arrived at its final allocation of 7 seats, 3 of which were up for election in 2020. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the …
Contributing to the Development Guide
By Erik L. Arneson | Thursday, October 01, 2020 in Blog
When most people think of contributing to an open source project, I suspect they probably think of contributing code changes, new features, and bug fixes. As a software engineer and a long-time open source user and contributor, that's certainly what …
GSoC 2020 - Building operators for cluster addons
By Somtochi Onyekwere | Wednesday, September 16, 2020 in Blog
Introduction Google Summer of Code is a global program that is geared towards introducing students to open source. Students are matched with open-source organizations to work with them for three months during the summer. My name is Somtochi Onyekwere …
Introducing Structured Logs
By Marek Siarkowicz (Google), Nathan Beach (Google) | Friday, September 04, 2020 in Blog
Logs are an essential aspect of observability and a critical tool for debugging. But Kubernetes logs have traditionally been unstructured strings, making any automated parsing difficult and any downstream processing, analysis, or querying challenging …
Warning: Helpful Warnings Ahead
By Jordan Liggitt (Google) | Thursday, September 03, 2020 in Blog
As Kubernetes maintainers, we're always looking for ways to improve usability while preserving compatibility. As we develop features, triage bugs, and answer support questions, we accumulate information that would be helpful for Kubernetes users to …