Posts in 2021

  • Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know

    By Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog

    As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old APIs they replace are deprecated, and eventually removed. See Kubernetes API removals to read more about Kubernetes' policy on removing APIs. We …

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  • Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports

    By Divya Mohan | Monday, June 28, 2021 in Blog

    Given the growth and scale of the Kubernetes project, the existing reporting mechanisms were proving to be inadequate and challenging. Kubernetes is a large open source project. With over 100000 commits just to the main k/kubernetes repository, …

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  • Writing a Controller for Pod Labels

    By Arthur Busser (Padok) | Monday, June 21, 2021 in Blog

    Operators are proving to be an excellent solution to running stateful distributed applications in Kubernetes. Open source tools like the Operator SDK provide ways to build reliable and maintainable operators, making it easier to extend Kubernetes and …

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  • Using Finalizers to Control Deletion

    By Aaron Alpar (Kasten) | Friday, May 14, 2021 in Blog

    Deleting objects in Kubernetes can be challenging. You may think you’ve deleted something, only to find it still persists. While issuing a kubectl delete command and hoping for the best might work for day-to-day operations, understanding how …

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  • Kubernetes 1.21: Metrics Stability hits GA

    By Han Kang (Google), Elana Hashman (Red Hat) | Friday, April 23, 2021 in Blog

    Kubernetes 1.21 marks the graduation of the metrics stability framework and along with it, the first officially supported stable metrics. Not only do stable metrics come with supportability guarantees, the metrics stability framework brings escape …

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  • Evolving Kubernetes networking with the Gateway API

    By Mark Church (Google), Harry Bagdi (Kong), Daneyon Hanson (Red Hat), Nick Young (VMware), Manuel Zapf (Traefik Labs) | Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Blog

    The Ingress resource is one of the many Kubernetes success stories. It created a diverse ecosystem of Ingress controllers which were used across hundreds of thousands of clusters in a standardized and consistent way. This standardization helped users …

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  • Graceful Node Shutdown Goes Beta

    By David Porter (Google), Mrunal Patel (Red Hat), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in Blog

    Graceful node shutdown, beta in 1.21, enables kubelet to gracefully evict pods during a node shutdown. Kubernetes is a distributed system and as such we need to be prepared for inevitable failures — nodes will fail, containers might crash or be …

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  • Defining Network Policy Conformance for Container Network Interface (CNI) providers

    By Matt Fenwick (Synopsys), Jay Vyas (VMWare), Ricardo Katz, Amim Knabben (Loadsmart), Douglas Schilling Landgraf (Red Hat), Christopher Tomkins (Tigera) | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Blog

    Special thanks to Tim Hockin and Bowie Du (Google), Dan Winship and Antonio Ojea (Red Hat), Casey Davenport and Shaun Crampton (Tigera), and Abhishek Raut and Antonin Bas (VMware) for being supportive of this work, and working with us to resolve …

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  • Annotating Kubernetes Services for Humans

    By Richard Li (Ambassador Labs) | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Blog

    Have you ever been asked to troubleshoot a failing Kubernetes service and struggled to find basic information about the service such as the source repository and owner? One of the problems as Kubernetes applications grow is the proliferation of …

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  • Introducing Indexed Jobs

    By Aldo Culquicondor (Google) | Monday, April 19, 2021 in Blog

    Once you have containerized a non-parallel Job, it is quite easy to get it up and running on Kubernetes without modifications to the binary. In most cases, when running parallel distributed Jobs, you had to set a separate system to partition the work …

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