Posts in 2020
How Kubernetes contributors are building a better communication process
By Paris Pittman | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Blog
"Perhaps we just need to use a different word. We may need to use community development or project advocacy as a word in the open source realm as opposed to marketing, and perhaps then people will realize that they need to do it." ~ Nithya …
Cluster API v1alpha3 Delivers New Features and an Improved User Experience
By Daniel Lipovetsky (D2IQ) | Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Blog
The Cluster API is a Kubernetes project to bring declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration, and management. It provides optional, additive functionality on top of core Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of a Kubernetes …
API Priority and Fairness Alpha
By Min Kim (Ant Financial), Mike Spreitzer (IBM), Daniel Smith (Google) | Monday, April 06, 2020 in Blog
This blog describes “API Priority And Fairness”, a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.18. API Priority And Fairness permits cluster administrators to divide the concurrency of the control plane into different weighted priority levels. Every request …
Introducing Windows CSI support alpha for Kubernetes
By Deep Debroy [Docker], Jing Xu [Google], Krishnakumar R (KK) [Microsoft] | Friday, April 03, 2020 in Blog
The alpha version of CSI Proxy for Windows is being released with Kubernetes 1.18. CSI proxy enables CSI Drivers on Windows by allowing containers in Windows to perform privileged storage operations. Background Container Storage Interface (CSI) for …
Improvements to the Ingress API in Kubernetes 1.18
By Rob Scott (Google), Christopher M Luciano (IBM) | Thursday, April 02, 2020 in Blog
The Ingress API in Kubernetes has enabled a large number of controllers to provide simple and powerful ways to manage inbound network traffic to Kubernetes workloads. In Kubernetes 1.18, we've made 3 significant additions to this API: A new pathType …
Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!
By Kevin Klues (NVIDIA), Victor Pickard (Red Hat), Conor Nolan (Intel) | Wednesday, April 01, 2020 in Blog
This blog post describes the TopologyManager, a beta feature of Kubernetes in release 1.18. The TopologyManager feature enables NUMA alignment of CPUs and peripheral devices (such as SR-IOV VFs and GPUs), allowing your workload to run in an …
Kubernetes 1.18 Feature Server-side Apply Beta 2
By Antoine Pelisse (Google) | Wednesday, April 01, 2020 in Blog
What is Server-side Apply? Server-side Apply is an important effort to migrate “kubectl apply” to the apiserver. It was started in 2018 by the Apply working group. The use of kubectl to declaratively apply resources has exposed the following …
Kubernetes 1.18: Fit & Finish
By Kubernetes 1.18 Release Team | Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in Blog
We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 enhancements in alpha. Kubernetes 1.18 is a …
Join SIG Scalability and Learn Kubernetes the Hard Way
By Alex Handy | Thursday, March 19, 2020 in Blog
Contributing to SIG Scalability is a great way to learn Kubernetes in all its depth and breadth, and the team would love to have you join as a contributor. I took a look at the value of learning the hard way and interviewed the current SIG chairs to …
Kong Ingress Controller and Service Mesh: Setting up Ingress to Istio on Kubernetes
By Kevin Chen, Kong | Wednesday, March 18, 2020 in Blog
Kubernetes has become the de facto way to orchestrate containers and the services within services. But how do we give services outside our cluster access to what is within? Kubernetes comes with the Ingress API object that manages external access to …