By Ahmet Alp Balkan (Google) | Monday, October 01, 2018 in Blog
Update (December 2021): Kubernetes now has built-in gRPC health probes starting in v1.23. To learn more, see Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes. This article was originally written about an external tool to achieve the same task. gRPC …
By Kubernetes v1.12 Release Team | Thursday, September 27, 2018 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.12, our third release of 2018! Today’s release continues to focus on internal improvements and graduating features to stable in Kubernetes. This newest version graduates key features such as …
By Thomas Rampelberg (Buoyant) | Tuesday, September 18, 2018 in Blog
Linkerd 2.0 was recently announced as generally available (GA), signaling its readiness for production use. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get Linkerd 2.0 up and running on your Kubernetes cluster in a matter seconds. But first, what …
By Paris Pittman (Google), Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Thursday, September 06, 2018 in Blog
Having a clear, definable governance model is crucial for the health of open source projects. For one of the highest velocity projects in the open source world, governance is critical especially for one as large and active as Kubernetes, which is one …
By Aaron Crickenberger (Google), Benjamin Elder (Google) | Wednesday, August 29, 2018 in Blog
“Large projects have a lot of less exciting, yet, hard work. We value time spent automating repetitive work more highly than toil. Where that work cannot be automated, it is our culture to recognize and reward all types of contributions. However, …
By Phillip Wittrock (Google), Sunil Arora (Google) | Friday, August 10, 2018 in Blog
How can we enable applications such as MySQL, Spark and Cassandra to manage themselves just like Kubernetes Deployments and Pods do? How do we configure these applications as their own first class APIs instead of a collection of StatefulSets, …
By Steven Wong (VMware), Michael Gasch (VMware) | Friday, August 03, 2018 in Blog
This blog offers some guidelines for running a production grade Kubernetes cluster in an environment like an on-premise data center or edge location. What does it mean to be “production grade”? The installation is secure The deployment is managed …
By Orain Xiong (WoquTech) | Thursday, August 02, 2018 in Blog
There is a very powerful storage subsystem within Kubernetes itself, covering a fairly broad spectrum of use cases. Whereas, when planning to build a product-grade relational database platform with Kubernetes, we face a big challenge: coming up with …
By David Vossel (Red Hat) | Friday, July 27, 2018 in Blog
What is KubeVirt? KubeVirt is a Kubernetes addon that provides users the ability to schedule traditional virtual machine workloads side by side with container workloads. Through the use of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and other Kubernetes …
By Balaji Subramaniam (Intel), Connor Doyle (Intel) | Tuesday, July 24, 2018 in Blog
This blog post describes the CPU Manager, a beta feature in Kubernetes. The CPU manager feature enables better placement of workloads in the Kubelet, the Kubernetes node agent, by allocating exclusive CPUs to certain pod containers. Sounds Good! But …