By Shailesh Mittal (Datera Inc), Ashok Rajagopala (Datera Inc) | Monday, August 29, 2016 in Blog
Introduction Persistent volumes in Kubernetes are foundational as customers move beyond stateless workloads to run stateful applications. While Kubernetes has supported stateful applications such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, and Couchbase for a while, …
By Matt Farina (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: This post is by the Kubernetes SIG-Apps team sharing how they focus on the developer and devops experience of running applications in Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an incredible manager for containerized applications. Because of this, …
By Mike Altarace (Google Cloud Platform), Daz Wilkin (Google Cloud Platform) | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog
“Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third” Who's on First? by Abbott and Costello Introduction Kubernetes is a system with several concepts. Many of these concepts get manifested as “objects” in the RESTful API (often called …
By Arun Gupta (Couchbase) | Monday, August 15, 2016 in Blog
Couchbase Server is an open source, distributed NoSQL document-oriented database. It exposes a fast key-value store with managed cache for submillisecond data operations, purpose-built indexers for fast queries and a query engine for executing SQL …
By Bich Le (Platform9) | Tuesday, August 02, 2016 in Blog
Introduction The recently announced Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is an on-premises enterprise Kubernetes solution with an unusual twist: while clusters run on a user’s internal hardware, their provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting and …
By Martin Buhr (Google) | Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Blog
Today, Mirantis, the leading contributor to OpenStack, announced that it will re-write its private cloud platform to use Kubernetes as its underlying orchestration engine. We think this is a great step forward for both the OpenStack and Kubernetes …
By Clayton Coleman (Red Hat) | Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog
Two years ago, Red Hat made a big bet on Kubernetes. We bet on a simple idea: that an open source community is the best place to build the future of application orchestration, and that only an open source community could successfully integrate the …
By Justin Santa Barbara (independent) | Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog
Dear K8s, It’s hard to believe you’re only one - you’ve grown up so fast. On the occasion of your first birthday, I thought I would write a little note about why I was so excited when you were born, why I feel fortunate to be part of the group that …
By Sarah Novotny (independent) | Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog
Last year at OSCON, I got to reconnect with a bunch of friends and see what they have been working on. That turned out to be the Kubernetes 1.0 launch event. Even that day, it was clear the project was supported by a broad community -- a group that …
By Travis Newhouse (AppFormix) | Monday, July 18, 2016 in Blog
Historically, Kubernetes testing has been hosted by Google, running e2e tests on Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Container Engine (GKE). In fact, the gating checks for the submit-queue are a subset of tests executed on these test platforms. …