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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Rob Scott (Google) | Wednesday, September 02, 2020 in Blog
EndpointSlices are an exciting new API that provides a scalable and extensible alternative to the Endpoints API. EndpointSlices track IP addresses, ports, readiness, and topology information for Pods backing a Service. In Kubernetes 1.19 this feature …
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Tuesday, September 01, 2020 in Blog
Some applications need additional storage but don't care whether that data is stored persistently across restarts. For example, caching services are often limited by memory size and can move infrequently used data into storage that is slower than …
By Tim Pepper (VMware), Nick Young (VMware) | Monday, August 31, 2020 in Blog
Starting with Kubernetes 1.19, the support window for Kubernetes versions will increase from 9 months to one year. The longer support window is intended to allow organizations to perform major upgrades at a time of the year that works the best for …
By Kubernetes 1.19 Release Team | Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in Blog
Finally, we have arrived with Kubernetes 1.19, the second release for 2020, and by far the longest release cycle lasting 20 weeks in total. It consists of 34 enhancements: 10 enhancements are moving to stable, 15 enhancements in beta, and 9 …