Posts in 2020

  • Remembering Brad Childs

    By Paul Morie (Red Hat) | Friday, January 10, 2020 in Blog

    Last year, the Kubernetes family lost one of its own. Brad Childs was a SIG Storage chair and long time contributor to the project. Brad worked on a number of features in storage and was known as much for his friendliness and sense of humor as for …

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  • Testing of CSI drivers

    By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Wednesday, January 08, 2020 in Blog

    When developing a Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, it is useful to leverage as much prior work as possible. This includes source code (like the sample CSI hostpath driver) but also existing tests. Besides saving time, using tests written by …

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Posts in 2019

  • Kubernetes 1.17: Stability

    By Kubernetes 1.17 Release Team | Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog

    We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.17, our fourth and final release of 2019! Kubernetes v1.17 consists of 22 enhancements: 14 enhancements have graduated to stable, 4 enhancements are moving to beta, and 4 enhancements are …

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  • Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta

    By Xing Yang (VMware), Xiangqian Yu (Google) | Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog

    The Kubernetes Volume Snapshot feature is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. It was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.12, with a second alpha with breaking changes in Kubernetes v1.13. This post summarizes the changes in the beta release. What is a …

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  • Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes In-Tree to CSI Volume Migration Moves to Beta

    By David Zhu (Software Engineer, Google) | Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog

    The Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. CSI migration was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.14. Kubernetes features are generally introduced as alpha and …

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  • When you're in the release team, you're family: the Kubernetes 1.16 release interview

    By Craig Box (Google) | Friday, December 06, 2019 in Blog

    It is a pleasure to co-host the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google with Adam Glick. We get to talk to friends old and new from the community, as well as give people a download on the Cloud Native news every week. It was also a pleasure to see …

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  • Gardener Project Update

    By Rafael Franzke (SAP), Vasu Chandrasekhara (SAP) | Monday, December 02, 2019 in Blog

    Last year, we introduced Gardener in the Kubernetes Community Meeting and in a post on the Kubernetes Blog. At SAP, we have been running Gardener for more than two years, and are successfully managing thousands of conformant clusters in various …

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  • Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Microk8s

    By Ihor Dvoretskyi (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Carmine Rimi | Tuesday, November 26, 2019 in Blog

    This article, the second in a series about local deployment options on Linux, and covers MicroK8s. Microk8s is the click-and-run solution for deploying a Kubernetes cluster locally, originally developed by Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu. While …

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  • Develop a Kubernetes controller in Java

    By Min Kim (Ant Financial), Tony Ado (Ant Financial) | Tuesday, November 26, 2019 in Blog

    The official Kubernetes Java SDK project recently released their latest work on providing the Java Kubernetes developers a handy Kubernetes controller-builder SDK which is helpful for easily developing advanced workloads or systems. Overall Java is …

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  • Grokkin' the Docs

    By Aimee Ukasick (independent contributor) | Tuesday, November 05, 2019 in Blog

    Definition courtesy of Merriam Webster online dictionary Intro - Observations of a new SIG Docs contributor I began contributing to the SIG Docs community in August 2019. Sometimes I feel like I am a stranger in a strange land adapting to a new …

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