Posts in 2020
Contributor Summit Amsterdam Postponed
By Dawn Foster (VMware), Jorge Castro (VMware) | Wednesday, March 04, 2020 in Blog
The CNCF has announced that KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU has been delayed until July/August of 2020. As a result the Contributor Summit planning team is weighing options for how to proceed. Here’s the current plan: There will be an in-person …
Bring your ideas to the world with kubectl plugins
By Cornelius Weig (TNG Technology Consulting GmbH) | Friday, February 28, 2020 in Blog
kubectl is the most critical tool to interact with Kubernetes and has to address multiple user personas, each with their own needs and opinions. One way to make kubectl do what you need is to build new functionality into kubectl. Challenges with …
Contributor Summit Amsterdam Schedule Announced
By Jeffrey Sica (Red Hat), Amanda Katona (VMware) | Tuesday, February 18, 2020 in Blog
Hello everyone and Happy 2020! It’s hard to believe that KubeCon EU 2020 is less than six weeks away, and with that another contributor summit! This year we have the pleasure of being in Amsterdam in early spring, so be sure to pack some warmer …
Deploying External OpenStack Cloud Provider with Kubeadm
Friday, February 07, 2020 in Blog
This document describes how to install a single control-plane Kubernetes cluster v1.15 with kubeadm on CentOS, and then deploy an external OpenStack cloud provider and Cinder CSI plugin to use Cinder volumes as persistent volumes in Kubernetes. …
KubeInvaders - Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
By Eugenio Marzo (Sourcesense) | Wednesday, January 22, 2020 in Blog
Some months ago, I released my latest project called KubeInvaders. The first time I shared it with the community was during an Openshift Commons Briefing session. Kubenvaders is a Gamified Chaos Engineering tool for Kubernetes and Openshift and helps …
Reviewing 2019 in Docs
By Zach Corleissen (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) | Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Blog
Hi, folks! I'm one of the co-chairs for the Kubernetes documentation special interest group (SIG Docs). This blog post is a review of SIG Docs in 2019. Our contributors did amazing work last year, and I want to highlight their successes. Although I …
CSI Ephemeral Inline Volumes
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Blog
Typically, volumes provided by an external storage driver in Kubernetes are persistent, with a lifecycle that is completely independent of pods or (as a special case) loosely coupled to the first pod which uses a volume (late binding mode). The …
Kubernetes on MIPS
By TimYin Shi, Dominic Yin, Wang Zhan, Jessica Jiang, Will Cai, Jeffrey Gao, Simon Sun (Inspur) | Wednesday, January 15, 2020 in Blog
Background MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), appeared in 1981 and developed by MIPS Technologies. Now MIPS architecture is widely used in many …
Announcing the Kubernetes bug bounty program
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Maya Kaczorowski and Tim Allclair, Google, on behalf of the Kubernetes Product Security Committee Today, the Kubernetes Product Security Committee is launching a new bug bounty program, funded by the CNCF, to reward researchers finding …
Remembering Brad Childs
By Paul Morie (Red Hat) | Friday, January 10, 2020 in Blog
Last year, the Kubernetes family lost one of its own. Brad Childs was a SIG Storage chair and long time contributor to the project. Brad worked on a number of features in storage and was known as much for his friendliness and sense of humor as for …