By Malte Isberner (StackRox) | Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Blog
Kubernetes has greatly improved the speed and manageability of backend clusters in production today. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard in container orchestrators thanks to its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Kubernetes also …
By Paris Pittman (Google), Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Wednesday, March 20, 2019 in Blog
Seattle Contributor Summit As our contributing community grows in great numbers, with more than 16,000 contributors this year across 150+ GitHub repositories, it’s important to provide face to face connections for our large distributed teams to have …
By Sanil Kumar D (Huawei), Jun Du(Huawei) | Tuesday, March 19, 2019 in Blog
KubeEdge becomes the first Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Platform with both Edge and Cloud components open sourced! Open source edge computing is going through its most dynamic phase of development in the industry. So many open source platforms, …
By Naresh L J (Infosys) | Friday, March 15, 2019 in Blog
Objective This blog post describes the steps required to setup a multi node Kubernetes cluster for development purposes. This setup provides a production-like cluster that can be setup on your local machine. Why do we require multi node cluster …
By Ben Swartzlander (NetApp), Saad Ali (Google) | Thursday, March 07, 2019 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.13 moves raw block volume support to beta. This feature allows persistent volumes to be exposed inside containers as a block device instead of as a mounted file system. What are block devices? Block devices enable random access to data …
By Diane Mueller (Red Hat) | Thursday, February 28, 2019 in Blog
One of the important challenges facing developers and Kubernetes administrators has been a lack of ability to quickly find common services that are operationally ready for Kubernetes. Typically, the presence of an Operator for a specific service - a …
By Daniel Bryant (Datawire), Flynn (Datawire), Richard Li (Datawire) | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 in Blog
Kubernetes has become the de facto runtime for container-based microservice applications, but this orchestration framework alone does not provide all of the infrastructure necessary for running a distributed system. Microservices typically …
By Kubernetes Product Security Committee | Monday, February 11, 2019 in Blog
This morning a container escape vulnerability in runc was announced. We wanted to provide some guidance to Kubernetes users to ensure everyone is safe and secure. What is runc? Very briefly, runc is the low-level tool which does the heavy lifting of …
By Deepak Vij (Huawei), Shivram Shrivastava (Huawei) | Wednesday, February 06, 2019 in Blog
Introduction Cluster Management systems such as Mesos, Google Borg, Kubernetes etc. in a cloud scale datacenter environment (also termed as Datacenter-as-a-Computer or Warehouse-Scale Computing - WSC) typically manage application workloads by …
By DJing Xu (Google), Xing Yang (Huawei), Saad Ali (Google) | Thursday, January 17, 2019 in Blog
Volume snapshotting support was introduced in Kubernetes v1.12 as an alpha feature. In Kubernetes v1.13, it remains an alpha feature, but a few enhancements were added and some breaking changes were made. This post summarizes the changes. Breaking …