Posts in 2016
High performance network policies in Kubernetes clusters
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: today’s post is by Juergen Brendel, Pritesh Kothari and Chris Marino co-founders of Pani Networks, the sponsor of the Romana project, the network policy software used for these benchmark tests. Network Policies Since the release of …
Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster using Helm
Friday, September 09, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm, a Kubernetes package manager. Crunchy Data supplies a set of open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL related …
Deploying to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with kit
Tuesday, September 06, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Chesley Brown, Full-Stack Engineer, at InVision, talking about how they build and open sourced kit to help them to continuously deploy updates to multiple clusters. Our Docker journey at InVision may sound …
Cloud Native Application Interfaces
Thursday, September 01, 2016 in Blog
Standard Interfaces (or, the Thirteenth Factor) --by Brian Grant and Craig Mcluckie, Google When you say we need ‘software standards’ in erudite company, you get some interesting looks. Most concede that software standards have been central to the …
Security Best Practices for Kubernetes Deployment
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 in Blog
Note: some of the recommendations in this post are no longer current. Current cluster hardening options are described in this documentation. Editor’s note: today’s post is by Amir Jerbi and Michael Cherny of Aqua Security, describing security best …
Scaling Stateful Applications using Kubernetes Pet Sets and FlexVolumes with Datera Elastic Data Fabric
Monday, August 29, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Shailesh Mittal, Software Architect and Ashok Rajagopalan, Sr Director Product at Datera Inc, talking about Stateful Application provisioning with Kubernetes on Datera Elastic Data Fabric. Introduction …
SIG Apps: build apps for and operate them in Kubernetes
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, …
Kubernetes Namespaces: use cases and insights
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 …
Create a Couchbase cluster using Kubernetes
Monday, August 15, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Arun Gupta, Vice President Developer Relations at Couchbase, showing how to setup a Couchbase cluster with Kubernetes. Couchbase Server is an open source, distributed NoSQL document-oriented database. It …
Challenges of a Remotely Managed, On-Premises, Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster
Tuesday, August 02, 2016 in Blog
Today's post is written by Bich Le, chief architect at Platform9, describing how their engineering team overcame challenges in remotely managing bare-metal Kubernetes clusters. Introduction The recently announced Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is …