Posts in 2019
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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kube-proxy Subtleties: Debugging an Intermittent Connection Reset
By Yongkun Gui (Google) | Friday, March 29, 2019 in Blog
I recently came across a bug that causes intermittent connection resets. After some digging, I found it was caused by a subtle combination of several different network subsystems. It helped me understand Kubernetes networking better, and I think it’s …
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Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Minikube - now with Kubernetes 1.14 support
By Ihor Dvoretskyi (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) | Thursday, March 28, 2019 in Blog
A few days ago, the Kubernetes community announced Kubernetes 1.14, the most recent version of Kubernetes. Alongside it, Minikube, a part of the Kubernetes project, recently hit the 1.0 milestone, which supports Kubernetes 1.14 by default. …
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Kubernetes 1.14: Production-level support for Windows Nodes, Kubectl Updates, Persistent Local Volumes GA
By Kubernetes v1.14 Release Team | Monday, March 25, 2019 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.14, our first release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.14 consists of 31 enhancements: 10 moving to stable, 12 in beta, and 7 net new. The main themes of this release are extensibility and supporting more …
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Kubernetes End-to-end Testing for Everyone
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Friday, March 22, 2019 in Blog
More and more components that used to be part of Kubernetes are now being developed outside of Kubernetes. For example, storage drivers used to be compiled into Kubernetes binaries, then were moved into stand-alone FlexVolume binaries on the host, …
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A Guide to Kubernetes Admission Controllers
By Malte Isberner (StackRox) | Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Blog
Kubernetes has greatly improved the speed and manageability of backend clusters in production today. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard in container orchestrators thanks to its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Kubernetes also …