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). …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
By Andrei Kvapil (WEDOS) | Tuesday, October 02, 2018 in Blog
In this post, I'm going to introduce you to a cool technology for Kubernetes, LTSP. It is useful for large baremetal Kubernetes deployments. You don't need to think about installing an OS and binaries on each node anymore. Why? You can do that …
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 …