Posts in 2019
Cat shirts and Groundhog Day: the Kubernetes 1.14 release interview
By Craig Box (Google) | Monday, May 13, 2019 in Blog
Last week we celebrated one year of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google. In this weekly show, my co-host Adam Glick and I focus on all the great things that are happening in the world of Kubernetes and Cloud Native. From the news of the week, to …
Join us for the 2019 KubeCon Diversity Lunch & Hack
By Kiran Oliver (The New Stack) | Thursday, May 02, 2019 in Blog
Join us for the 2019 KubeCon Diversity Lunch & Hack: Building Tech Skills & An Inclusive Community - Sponsored by Google Cloud and VMware Registration for the Diversity Lunch opens today, May 2nd, 2019. To register, go to the main KubeCon + …
How You Can Help Localize Kubernetes Docs
By Zach Corleissen (Linux Foundation) | Friday, April 26, 2019 in Blog
Last year we optimized the Kubernetes website for hosting multilingual content. Contributors responded by adding multiple new localizations: as of April 2019, Kubernetes docs are partially available in nine different languages, with six added in 2019 …
Hardware Accelerated SSL/TLS Termination in Ingress Controllers using Kubernetes Device Plugins and RuntimeClass
By Mikko Ylinen (Intel) | Wednesday, April 24, 2019 in Blog
Abstract A Kubernetes Ingress is a way to connect cluster services to the world outside the cluster. In order to correctly route the traffic to service backends, the cluster needs an Ingress controller. The Ingress controller is responsible for …
Introducing kube-iptables-tailer: Better Networking Visibility in Kubernetes Clusters
By Saifuding Diliyaer (Box) | Friday, April 19, 2019 in Blog
At Box, we use Kubernetes to empower our engineers to own the whole lifecycle of their microservices. When it comes to networking, our engineers use Tigera’s Project Calico to declaratively manage network policies for their apps running in our …
The Future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes
By Andrew Sy Kim (VMware), Mike Crute (AWS), Walter Fender (Google) | Wednesday, April 17, 2019 in Blog
Approximately 9 months ago, the Kubernetes community agreed to form the Cloud Provider Special Interest Group (SIG). The justification was to have a single governing SIG to own and shape the integration points between Kubernetes and the many cloud …
Pod Priority and Preemption in Kubernetes
By Bobby Salamat | Tuesday, April 16, 2019 in Blog
Kubernetes is well-known for running scalable workloads. It scales your workloads based on their resource usage. When a workload is scaled up, more instances of the application get created. When the application is critical for your product, you want …
Process ID Limiting for Stability Improvements in Kubernetes 1.14
By Derek Carr | Monday, April 15, 2019 in Blog
Have you ever seen someone take more than their fair share of the cookies? The one person who reaches in and grabs a half dozen fresh baked chocolate chip chunk morsels and skitters off like Cookie Monster exclaiming “Om nom nom nom.” In some rare …
Kubernetes 1.14: Local Persistent Volumes GA
By Michelle Au (Google), Matt Schallert (Uber), Celina Ward (Uber) | Thursday, April 04, 2019 in Blog
The Local Persistent Volumes feature has been promoted to GA in Kubernetes 1.14. It was first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes 1.7, and then beta in Kubernetes 1.10. The GA milestone indicates that Kubernetes users may depend on the feature and its …
Kubernetes v1.14 delivers production-level support for Windows nodes and Windows containers
By Michael Michael (VMware), Patrick Lang (Microsoft) | Monday, April 01, 2019 in Blog
The first release of Kubernetes in 2019 brings a highly anticipated feature - production-level support for Windows workloads. Up until now Windows node support in Kubernetes has been in beta, allowing many users to experiment and see the value of …