Kubernetes
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Introducing Windows CSI support alpha for Kubernetes
The alpha version of CSI Proxy for Windows is being released with Kubernetes 1.18. CSI proxy enables CSI Drivers on Windows by allowing containers in Windows to perform privileged storage operations. Background Container Storage Interface…
Improvements to the Ingress API in Kubernetes 1.18
The Ingress API in Kubernetes has enabled a large number of controllers to provide simple and powerful ways to manage inbound network traffic to Kubernetes workloads. In Kubernetes 1.18, we've made 3 significant additions to this API: A…
Kubernetes 1.18 Feature Server-side Apply Beta 2
What is Server-side Apply? Server-side Apply is an important effort to migrate “kubectl apply” to the apiserver. It was started in 2018 by the Apply working group. The use of kubectl to declaratively apply resources has exposed the…
Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!
This blog post describes the TopologyManager, a beta feature of Kubernetes in release 1.18. The TopologyManager feature enables NUMA alignment of CPUs and peripheral devices (such as SR-IOV VFs and GPUs), allowing your workload to run in…
Kubernetes 1.18: Fit & Finish
We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 enhancements in alpha. Kubernetes 1.18…
Join SIG Scalability and Learn Kubernetes the Hard Way
Contributing to SIG Scalability is a great way to learn Kubernetes in all its depth and breadth, and the team would love to have you join as a contributor. I took a look at the value of learning the hard way and interviewed the current SIG…
Kong Ingress Controller and Service Mesh: Setting up Ingress to Istio on Kubernetes
Kubernetes has become the de facto way to orchestrate containers and the services within services. But how do we give services outside our cluster access to what is within? Kubernetes comes with the Ingress API object that manages external…
Bring your ideas to the world with kubectl plugins
kubectl is the most critical tool to interact with Kubernetes and has to address multiple user personas, each with their own needs and opinions. One way to make kubectl do what you need is to build new functionality into kubectl.…
Deploying External OpenStack Cloud Provider with Kubeadm
This document describes how to install a single control-plane Kubernetes cluster v1.15 with kubeadm on CentOS, and then deploy an external OpenStack cloud provider and Cinder CSI plugin to use Cinder volumes as persistent volumes in…
KubeInvaders - Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
Some months ago, I released my latest project called KubeInvaders. The first time I shared it with the community was during an Openshift Commons Briefing session. Kubenvaders is a Gamified Chaos Engineering tool for Kubernetes and…
CSI Ephemeral Inline Volumes
Typically, volumes provided by an external storage driver in Kubernetes are persistent, with a lifecycle that is completely independent of pods or (as a special case) loosely coupled to the first pod which uses a volume (late binding…
Reviewing 2019 in Docs
Hi, folks! I'm one of the co-chairs for the Kubernetes documentation special interest group (SIG Docs). This blog post is a review of SIG Docs in 2019. Our contributors did amazing work last year, and I want to highlight their successes.…
Kubernetes on MIPS
Background MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), appeared in 1981 and developed by MIPS Technologies. Now MIPS architecture is widely…
Announcing the Kubernetes bug bounty program
Authors: Maya Kaczorowski and Tim Allclair, Google, on behalf of the Kubernetes Product Security Committee Today, the Kubernetes Product Security Committee is launching a new bug bounty program, funded by the CNCF, to reward researchers…
Testing of CSI drivers
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…
Kubernetes 1.17: Stability
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…
Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta
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.…
Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes In-Tree to CSI Volume Migration Moves to Beta
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…
When you're in the release team, you're family: the Kubernetes 1.16 release interview
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…
Gardener Project Update
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…
Develop a Kubernetes controller in Java
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.…
Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Microk8s
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…
Grokkin' the Docs
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 community: investigating community organization,…
Kubernetes Documentation Survey
In September, SIG Docs conducted its first survey about the Kubernetes documentation. We'd like to thank the CNCF's Kim McMahon for helping us create the survey and access the results. Key takeaways Respondents would like more example…