Posts in 2021

  • Volume Health Monitoring Alpha Update

    By Xing Yang (VMware) | Friday, April 16, 2021 in Blog

    The CSI Volume Health Monitoring feature, originally introduced in 1.19 has undergone a large update for the 1.21 release. Why add Volume Health Monitoring to Kubernetes? Without Volume Health Monitoring, Kubernetes has no knowledge of the state of …

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  • Three Tenancy Models For Kubernetes

    By Ryan Bezdicek (Medtronic), Jim Bugwadia (Nirmata), Tasha Drew (VMware), Fei Guo (Alibaba), Adrian Ludwin (Google) | Thursday, April 15, 2021 in Blog

    Kubernetes clusters are typically used by several teams in an organization. In other cases, Kubernetes may be used to deliver applications to end users requiring segmentation and isolation of resources across users from different organizations. …

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  • Local Storage: Storage Capacity Tracking, Distributed Provisioning and Generic Ephemeral Volumes hit Beta

    By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in Blog

    The "generic ephemeral volumes" and "storage capacity tracking" features in Kubernetes are getting promoted to beta in Kubernetes 1.21. Together with the distributed provisioning support in the CSI external-provisioner, …

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  • kube-state-metrics goes v2.0

    By Lili Cosic (Red Hat), Frederic Branczyk (Polar Signals), Manuel Rüger (Sony Interactive Entertainment), Tariq Ibrahim (Salesforce) | Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in Blog

    What? kube-state-metrics, a project under the Kubernetes organization, generates Prometheus format metrics based on the current state of the Kubernetes native resources. It does this by listening to the Kubernetes API and gathering information about …

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  • Introducing Suspended Jobs

    By Adhityaa Chandrasekar (Google) | Monday, April 12, 2021 in Blog

    Jobs are a crucial part of Kubernetes' API. While other kinds of workloads such as Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets solve use-cases that require Pods to run forever, Jobs are useful when Pods need to run to completion. Commonly …

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  • Kubernetes 1.21: CronJob Reaches GA

    By Alay Patel (Red Hat), Maciej Szulik (Red Hat) | Friday, April 09, 2021 in Blog

    In Kubernetes v1.21, the CronJob resource reached general availability (GA). We've also substantially improved the performance of CronJobs since Kubernetes v1.19, by implementing a new controller. In Kubernetes v1.20 we launched a revised v2 …

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  • Kubernetes 1.21: Power to the Community

    By Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team | Thursday, April 08, 2021 in Blog

    We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.21, our first release of 2021! This release consists of 51 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 16 enhancements are moving to beta, 20 enhancements are entering alpha, and 2 …

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  • PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation: Past, Present, and Future

    By Tabitha Sable (Kubernetes SIG Security) | Tuesday, April 06, 2021 in Blog

    Update: With the release of Kubernetes v1.25, PodSecurityPolicy has been removed. You can read more information about the removal of PodSecurityPolicy in the Kubernetes 1.25 release notes. PodSecurityPolicy (PSP) is being deprecated in Kubernetes …

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  • The Evolution of Kubernetes Dashboard

    By Marcin Maciaszczyk (Kubermatic), Sebastian Florek (Kubermatic) | Tuesday, March 09, 2021 in Blog

    In October 2020, the Kubernetes Dashboard officially turned five. As main project maintainers, we can barely believe that so much time has passed since our very first commits to the project. However, looking back with a bit of nostalgia, we realize …

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Posts in 2020