Posts in 2017

  • Five Days of Kubernetes 1.8

    Tuesday, October 24, 2017 in Blog

    Kubernetes 1.8 is live, made possible by hundreds of contributors pushing thousands of commits in this latest releases. The community has tallied more than 66,000 commits in the main repo and continues rapid growth outside of the main repo, which …

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  • Introducing Software Certification for Kubernetes

    By William Denniss (Google) | Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Blog

    Over the last three years, Kubernetes® has seen wide-scale adoption by a vibrant and diverse community of providers. In fact, there are now more than 60 known Kubernetes platforms and distributions. From the start, one goal of Kubernetes has been …

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  • Request Routing and Policy Management with the Istio Service Mesh

    By Frank Budinsky (IBM), Andra Cismaru (Google), Israel Shalom (Google) | Tuesday, October 10, 2017 in Blog

    Editor's note: Today’s post is the second post in a three-part series on Istio. In a previous article, we looked at a simple application (Bookinfo) that is composed of four separate microservices. The article showed how to deploy an application with …

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  • Kubernetes Community Steering Committee Election Results

    Thursday, October 05, 2017 in Blog

    Beginning with the announcement of Kubernetes 1.0 at OSCON in 2015, there has been a concerted effort to share the power and burden of leadership across the Kubernetes community. With the work of the Bootstrap Governance Committee, consisting of …

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  • Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth

    By Kubernetes v1.8 Release Team | Friday, September 29, 2017 in Blog

    We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.8, our third release this year. Kubernetes 1.8 represents a snapshot of many exciting enhancements and refinements underway. In addition to functional improvements, we’re increasing project-wide …

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  • Kubernetes StatefulSets & DaemonSets Updates

    By Janet Kuo (Google), Kenneth Owens (Kenneth Owens) | Wednesday, September 27, 2017 in Blog

    This post talks about recent updates to the DaemonSet and StatefulSet API objects for Kubernetes. We explore these features using Apache ZooKeeper and Apache Kafka StatefulSets and a Prometheus node exporter DaemonSet. In Kubernetes 1.6, we added the …

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  • Introducing the Resource Management Working Group

    By Jeremy Eder (Red Hat) | Thursday, September 21, 2017 in Blog

    Why are we here? Kubernetes has evolved to support diverse and increasingly complex classes of applications. We can onboard and scale out modern, cloud-native web applications based on microservices, batch jobs, and stateful applications with …

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  • Windows Networking at Parity with Linux for Kubernetes

    By Jason Messer (Microsoft) | Friday, September 08, 2017 in Blog

    Since I last blogged about Kubernetes Networking for Windows four months ago, the Windows Core Networking team has made tremendous progress in both the platform and open source Kubernetes projects. With the updates, Windows is now on par with Linux …

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  • Kubernetes Meets High-Performance Computing

    By Robert Lalonde (Univa) | Tuesday, August 22, 2017 in Blog

    Anyone who has worked with Docker can appreciate the enormous gains in efficiency achievable with containers. While Kubernetes excels at orchestrating containers, high-performance computing (HPC) applications can be tricky to deploy on Kubernetes. In …

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  • High Performance Networking with EC2 Virtual Private Clouds

    By Juergen Brendel (Pani Networks) Chris Marino (Pani Networks) | Friday, August 11, 2017 in Blog

    One of the most popular platforms for running Kubernetes is Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). With more than a decade of experience delivering IaaS, and expanding over time to include a rich set of services with easy to consume …

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