Posts in 2021

  • Spotlight on SIG Node

    By Dewan Ahmed (Red Hat) | Monday, September 27, 2021 in Blog

    Introduction In Kubernetes, a Node is a representation of a single machine in your cluster. SIG Node owns that very important Node component and supports various subprojects such as Kubelet, Container Runtime Interface (CRI) and more to support how …

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  • Introducing Single Pod Access Mode for PersistentVolumes

    By Chris Henzie (Google) | Monday, September 13, 2021 in Blog

    Last month's release of Kubernetes v1.22 introduced a new ReadWriteOncePod access mode for PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims. With this alpha feature, Kubernetes allows you to restrict volume access to a single pod in the cluster. What are …

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  • Alpha in Kubernetes v1.22: API Server Tracing

    By David Ashpole (Google) | Friday, September 03, 2021 in Blog

    In distributed systems, it can be hard to figure out where problems are. You grep through one component's logs just to discover that the source of your problem is in another component. You search there only to discover that you need to enable debug …

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  • Kubernetes 1.22: A New Design for Volume Populators

    By Ben Swartzlander (NetApp) | Monday, August 30, 2021 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.22, released earlier this month, introduced a redesigned approach for volume populators. Originally implemented in v1.18, the API suffered from backwards compatibility issues. Kubernetes v1.22 includes a new API field called …

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  • Minimum Ready Seconds for StatefulSets

    By Ravi Gudimetla (Red Hat), Maciej Szulik (Red Hat) | Friday, August 27, 2021 in Blog

    This blog describes the notion of Availability for StatefulSet workloads, and a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.22 which adds minReadySeconds configuration for StatefulSets. What problems does this solve? Prior to Kubernetes 1.22 release, once a …

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  • Enable seccomp for all workloads with a new v1.22 alpha feature

    By Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) | Wednesday, August 25, 2021 in Blog

    This blog post is about a new Kubernetes feature introduced in v1.22, which adds an additional security layer on top of the existing seccomp support. Seccomp is a security mechanism for Linux processes to filter system calls (syscalls) based on a set …

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  • Alpha in v1.22: Windows HostProcess Containers

    By Brandon Smith (Microsoft) | Monday, August 16, 2021 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.22 introduced a new alpha feature for clusters that include Windows nodes: HostProcess containers. HostProcess containers aim to extend the Windows container model to enable a wider range of Kubernetes cluster management scenarios. …

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  • Kubernetes Memory Manager moves to beta

    By Artyom Lukianov (Red Hat), Cezary Zukowski (Samsung) | Wednesday, August 11, 2021 in Blog

    The blog post explains some of the internals of the Memory manager, a beta feature of Kubernetes 1.22. In Kubernetes, the Memory Manager is a kubelet subcomponent. The memory manage provides guaranteed memory (and hugepages) allocation for pods in …

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  • New in Kubernetes v1.22: alpha support for using swap memory

    By Elana Hashman (Red Hat) | Monday, August 09, 2021 in Blog

    The 1.22 release introduced alpha support for configuring swap memory usage for Kubernetes workloads on a per-node basis. In prior releases, Kubernetes did not support the use of swap memory on Linux, as it is difficult to provide guarantees and …

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  • Kubernetes 1.22: CSI Windows Support (with CSI Proxy) reaches GA

    By Mauricio Poppe (Google), Jing Xu (Google), Deep Debroy (Apple) | Monday, August 09, 2021 in Blog

    The stable version of CSI Proxy for Windows has been released alongside Kubernetes 1.22. CSI Proxy enables CSI Drivers running on Windows nodes to perform privileged storage operations. Background Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes went …

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