Posts in 2020

  • Kubernetes 1.19: Accentuate the Paw-sitive

    By Kubernetes 1.19 Release Team | Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in Blog

    Finally, we have arrived with Kubernetes 1.19, the second release for 2020, and by far the longest release cycle lasting 20 weeks in total. It consists of 34 enhancements: 10 enhancements are moving to stable, 15 enhancements in beta, and 9 …

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  • Moving Forward From Beta

    By Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Friday, August 21, 2020 in Blog

    In Kubernetes, features follow a defined lifecycle. First, as the twinkle of an eye in an interested developer. Maybe, then, sketched in online discussions, drawn on the online equivalent of a cafe napkin. This rough work typically becomes a …

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  • Introducing Hierarchical Namespaces

    By Adrian Ludwin (Google) | Friday, August 14, 2020 in Blog

    Safely hosting large numbers of users on a single Kubernetes cluster has always been a troublesome task. One key reason for this is that different organizations use Kubernetes in different ways, and so no one tenancy model is likely to suit everyone. …

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  • Physics, politics and Pull Requests: the Kubernetes 1.18 release interview

    By Craig Box (Google) | Monday, August 03, 2020 in Blog

    The start of the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't delay the release of Kubernetes 1.18, but unfortunately a small bug could — thankfully only by a day. This was the last cat that needed to be herded by 1.18 release lead Jorge Alarcón before the release on …

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  • Music and math: the Kubernetes 1.17 release interview

    By Adam Glick (Google) | Monday, July 27, 2020 in Blog

    Every time the Kubernetes release train stops at the station, we like to ask the release lead to take a moment to reflect on their experience. That takes the form of an interview on the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google that I co-host with Craig …

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  • SIG-Windows Spotlight

    Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in Blog

    This post tells the story of how Kubernetes contributors work together to provide a container orchestrator that works for both Linux and Windows. Most people who are familiar with Kubernetes are probably used to associating it with Linux. The …

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  • Working with Terraform and Kubernetes

    By Philipp Strube (Kubestack) | Monday, June 29, 2020 in Blog

    Maintaining Kubestack, an open-source Terraform GitOps Framework for Kubernetes, I unsurprisingly spend a lot of time working with Terraform and Kubernetes. Kubestack provisions managed Kubernetes services like AKS, EKS and GKE using Terraform but …

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  • A Better Docs UX With Docsy

    By Zach Corleissen (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) | Monday, June 15, 2020 in Blog

    Editor's note: Zach is one of the chairs for the Kubernetes documentation special interest group (SIG Docs). I'm pleased to announce that the Kubernetes website now features the Docsy Hugo theme. The Docsy theme improves the site's organization and …

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  • Supporting the Evolving Ingress Specification in Kubernetes 1.18

    By Alex Gervais (Datawire.io) | Friday, June 05, 2020 in Blog

    Earlier this year, the Kubernetes team released Kubernetes 1.18, which extended Ingress. In this blog post, we’ll walk through what’s new in the new Ingress specification, what it means for your applications, and how to upgrade to an ingress …

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  • K8s KPIs with Kuberhealthy

    By Joshulyne Park (Comcast), Eric Greer (Comcast) | Friday, May 29, 2020 in Blog

    Building Onward from Kuberhealthy v2.0.0 Last November at KubeCon San Diego 2019, we announced the release of Kuberhealthy 2.0.0 - transforming Kuberhealthy into a Kubernetes operator for synthetic monitoring. This new ability granted developers the …

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