Posts in 2018
Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 2
By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Friday, October 26, 2018 in Blog
Hello and welcome back to the second and final part about tips for KubeCon first-time speakers. If you missed the last post, please give it a read here. The Day before the Show Tip #13 - Get enough sleep. I don't know about you, but when I don't get …
Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 1
By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Thursday, October 18, 2018 in Blog
First of all, let me congratulate you to this outstanding achievement. Speaking at KubeCon, especially if it's your first time, is a tremendous honor and experience. Well done! Congrats to everyone who got Kubecon talks accepted! 👏👏👏 To everyone who …
Kubernetes 2018 North American Contributor Summit
By Bob Killen (University of Michigan), Sahdev Zala (IBM), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Blog
The 2018 North American Kubernetes Contributor Summit to be hosted right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle is shaping up to be the largest yet. It is an event that brings together new and current contributors alike to connect and share …
2018 Steering Committee Election Results
By Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF), Paris Pittman (Google) | Monday, October 15, 2018 in Blog
Results The Kubernetes Steering Committee Election is now complete and the following candidates came ahead to secure two year terms that start immediately: Aaron Crickenberger, Google, @spiffxp Davanum Srinivas, Huawei, @dims Tim St. Clair, Heptio, …
Topology-Aware Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes
By Michelle Au (Google) | Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Blog
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 dynamically provisioning volumes by …
Kubernetes v1.12: Introducing RuntimeClass
By Tim Allclair (Google) | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in Blog
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 Runtime Interface (CRI). …
Introducing Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes
By Jing Xu (Google), Xing Yang (Huawei), Saad Ali (Google) | Tuesday, October 09, 2018 in Blog
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 using the Kubernetes API. What is a Snapshot? Many storage …
Support for Azure VMSS, Cluster-Autoscaler and User Assigned Identity
By Krishnakumar R (KK) (Microsoft), Pengfei Ni (Microsoft) | Monday, October 08, 2018 in Blog
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 a preview feature. Azure VMSS allow you to create and manage …
Introducing the Non-Code Contributor’s Guide
By Noah Abrahams (InfoSiftr), Jonas Rosland (VMware), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Thursday, October 04, 2018 in Blog
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 Contributor Workshop. As a time of tremendous collaboration between contributors, the …
KubeDirector: The easy way to run complex stateful applications on Kubernetes
By Thomas Phelan (BlueData) | Wednesday, October 03, 2018 in Blog
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 leverages the native Kubernetes API …