Posts in 2018

  • Out of the Clouds onto the Ground: How to Make Kubernetes Production Grade Anywhere

    By Steven Wong (VMware), Michael Gasch (VMware) | Friday, August 03, 2018 in Blog

    This blog offers some guidelines for running a production grade Kubernetes cluster in an environment like an on-premise data center or edge location. What does it mean to be “production grade”? The installation is secure The deployment is managed …

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  • Dynamically Expand Volume with CSI and Kubernetes

    By Orain Xiong (WoquTech) | Thursday, August 02, 2018 in Blog

    There is a very powerful storage subsystem within Kubernetes itself, covering a fairly broad spectrum of use cases. Whereas, when planning to build a product-grade relational database platform with Kubernetes, we face a big challenge: coming up with …

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  • KubeVirt: Extending Kubernetes with CRDs for Virtualized Workloads

    By David Vossel (Red Hat) | Friday, July 27, 2018 in Blog

    What is KubeVirt? KubeVirt is a Kubernetes addon that provides users the ability to schedule traditional virtual machine workloads side by side with container workloads. Through the use of Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and other Kubernetes …

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  • Feature Highlight: CPU Manager

    By Balaji Subramaniam (Intel), Connor Doyle (Intel) | Tuesday, July 24, 2018 in Blog

    This blog post describes the CPU Manager, a beta feature in Kubernetes. The CPU manager feature enables better placement of workloads in the Kubelet, the Kubernetes node agent, by allocating exclusive CPUs to certain pod containers. Sounds Good! But …

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  • The History of Kubernetes & the Community Behind It

    By Brendan Burns (Microsoft) | Friday, July 20, 2018 in Blog

    It is remarkable to me to return to Portland and OSCON to stand on stage with members of the Kubernetes community and accept this award for Most Impactful Open Source Project. It was scarcely three years ago, that on this very same stage we declared …

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  • Kubernetes Wins the 2018 OSCON Most Impact Award

    By Brian Grant (Google), Tim Hockin (Google) | Thursday, July 19, 2018 in Blog

    We are humbled to be recognized by the community with this award. We had high hopes when we created Kubernetes. We wanted to change the way cloud applications were deployed and managed. Whether we’d succeed or not was very uncertain. And look how far …

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  • 11 Ways (Not) to Get Hacked

    By Andrew Martin (ControlPlane) | Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Blog

    Kubernetes security has come a long way since the project's inception, but still contains some gotchas. Starting with the control plane, building up through workload and network security, and finishing with a projection into the future of security, …

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  • How the sausage is made: the Kubernetes 1.11 release interview, from the Kubernetes Podcast

    By Craig Box (Google) | Monday, July 16, 2018 in Blog

    At KubeCon EU, my colleague Adam Glick and I were pleased to announce the Kubernetes Podcast from Google. In this weekly conversation, we focus on all the great things that are happening in the world of Kubernetes and Cloud Native. From the news of …

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  • Resizing Persistent Volumes using Kubernetes

    By Hemant Kumar (Red Hat) | Thursday, July 12, 2018 in Blog

    Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what’s new in Kubernetes 1.11 In Kubernetes v1.11 the persistent volume expansion feature is being promoted to beta. This feature allows users to easily resize an existing volume by …

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  • Dynamic Kubelet Configuration

    By Michael Taufen (Google) | Wednesday, July 11, 2018 in Blog

    Editor’s note: The feature has been removed in the version 1.24 after deprecation in 1.22. Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what’s new in Kubernetes 1.11 Why Dynamic Kubelet Configuration? Kubernetes provides …

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