Posts in 2018

  • Introducing Kubebuilder: an SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs

    Friday, August 10, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Phillip Wittrock (Google), Sunil Arora (Google) How can we enable applications such as MySQL, Spark and Cassandra to manage themselves just like Kubernetes Deployments and Pods do? How do we configure these applications as their own first …

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

    Friday, August 03, 2018 in Blog

    Authors: Steven Wong (VMware), Michael Gasch (VMware) 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”? …

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  • Dynamically Expand Volume with CSI and Kubernetes

    Thursday, August 02, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Orain Xiong (Co-Founder, WoquTech) 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 …

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  • KubeVirt: Extending Kubernetes with CRDs for Virtualized Workloads

    Friday, July 27, 2018 in Blog

    Author: David Vossel (Red Hat) 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 …

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  • Feature Highlight: CPU Manager

    Tuesday, July 24, 2018 in Blog

    Authors: Balaji Subramaniam (Intel), Connor Doyle (Intel) 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 …

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  • The History of Kubernetes & the Community Behind It

    Friday, July 20, 2018 in Blog

    Authors: Brendan Burns (Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft) 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 …

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  • Kubernetes Wins the 2018 OSCON Most Impact Award

    Thursday, July 19, 2018 in Blog

    Authors: Brian Grant (Principal Engineer, Google) and Tim Hockin (Principal Engineer, Google) 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 …

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  • 11 Ways (Not) to Get Hacked

    Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Andrew Martin (ControlPlane) 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 …

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

    Monday, July 16, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Craig Box (Google) 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 …

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  • Resizing Persistent Volumes using Kubernetes

    Thursday, July 12, 2018 in Blog

    Author: Hemant Kumar (Red Hat) 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 …

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