Posts in 2019
Update on Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes
Thursday, January 17, 2019 in Blog
Authors: Jing Xu (Google), Xing Yang (Huawei), Saad Ali (Google) 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 …
Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes GA
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 in Blog
Author: Saad Ali, Senior Software Engineer, Google The Kubernetes implementation of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) has been promoted to GA in the Kubernetes v1.13 release. Support for CSI was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.9 release, …
APIServer dry-run and kubectl diff
Monday, January 14, 2019 in Blog
Author: Antoine Pelisse (Google Cloud, @apelisse) Declarative configuration management, also known as configuration-as-code, is one of the key strengths of Kubernetes. It allows users to commit the desired state of the cluster, and to keep track of …
Posts in 2018
Kubernetes Federation Evolution
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 in Blog
Authors: Irfan Ur Rehman (Huawei), Paul Morie (RedHat) and Shashidhara T D (Huawei) Kubernetes provides great primitives for deploying applications to a cluster: it can be as simple as kubectl create -f app.yaml. Deploy apps across multiple clusters …
etcd: Current status and future roadmap
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 in Blog
Author: Gyuho Lee (Amazon Container OSS Team, @gyuho), Joe Betz (Google Cloud, @jpbetz) etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to manage the coordination state of distributed systems. etcd was first announced in June 2013 …
New Contributor Workshop Shanghai
Wednesday, December 05, 2018 in Blog
Authors: Josh Berkus (Red Hat), Yang Li (The Plant), Puja Abbassi (Giant Swarm), XiangPeng Zhao (ZTE) Kubecon Shanghai New Contributor Summit attendees. Photo by Jerry Zhang We recently completed our first New Contributor Summit in China, at the …
Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster Creation with kubeadm
Tuesday, December 04, 2018 in Blog
Authors: Lucas Käldström (CNCF Ambassador) and Luc Perkins (CNCF Developer Advocate) kubeadm is a tool that enables Kubernetes administrators to quickly and easily bootstrap minimum viable clusters that are fully compliant with Certified Kubernetes …
Kubernetes 1.13: Simplified Cluster Management with Kubeadm, Container Storage Interface (CSI), and CoreDNS as Default DNS are Now Generally Available
Monday, December 03, 2018 in Blog
Author: The 1.13 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.13, our fourth and final release of 2018! Kubernetes 1.13 has been one of the shortest releases to date at 10 weeks. This release continues to focus on stability and …
Kubernetes Docs Updates, International Edition
Thursday, November 08, 2018 in Blog
Author: Zach Corleissen (Linux Foundation) As a co-chair of SIG Docs, I'm excited to share that Kubernetes docs have a fully mature workflow for localization (l10n). Abbreviations galore L10n is an abbreviation for localization. I18n is an …
gRPC Load Balancing on Kubernetes without Tears
Wednesday, November 07, 2018 in Blog
Author: William Morgan (Buoyant) Many new gRPC users are surprised to find that Kubernetes's default load balancing often doesn't work out of the box with gRPC. For example, here's what happens when you take a simple gRPC Node.js microservices app …