Posts in 2016

  • Kubernetes Namespaces: use cases and insights

    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 …

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  • Create a Couchbase cluster using Kubernetes

    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 …

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  • Challenges of a Remotely Managed, On-Premises, Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster

    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 …

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  • Why OpenStack's embrace of Kubernetes is great for both communities

    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 …

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  • The Bet on Kubernetes, a Red Hat Perspective

    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 …

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  • Happy Birthday Kubernetes. Oh, the places you’ll go!

    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 …

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  • A Very Happy Birthday Kubernetes

    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 …

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  • Bringing End-to-End Kubernetes Testing to Azure (Part 2)

    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. …

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  • Steering an Automation Platform at Wercker with Kubernetes

    By Andy Smith (Wercker) | Friday, July 15, 2016 in Blog

    At Wercker we run millions of containers that execute our users’ CI/CD jobs. The vast majority of them are ephemeral and only last as long as builds, tests and deploys take to run, the rest are ephemeral, too -- aren't we all --, but tend to last a …

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  • Dashboard - Full Featured Web Interface for Kubernetes

    By Piotr Bryk (Google) | Friday, July 15, 2016 in Blog

    Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Kubernetes Dashboard is a project that aims to bring a general purpose monitoring and operational web interface to the Kubernetes world. Three months …

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