Posts in 2019
Announcing etcd 3.4
By Gyuho Lee (Amazon Web Services), Jingyi Hu (Google) | Friday, August 30, 2019 in Blog
etcd 3.4 focuses on stability, performance and ease of operation, with features like pre-vote and non-voting member and improvements to storage backend and client balancer. Please see CHANGELOG for full lists of changes. Better Storage Backend etcd …
OPA Gatekeeper: Policy and Governance for Kubernetes
By Rita Zhang (Microsoft), Max Smythe (Google), Craig Hooper (Commonwealth Bank AU), Tim Hinrichs (Styra), Lachie Evenson (Microsoft), Torin Sandall (Styra) | Tuesday, August 06, 2019 in Blog
The Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper project can be leveraged to help enforce policies and strengthen governance in your Kubernetes environment. In this post, we will walk through the goals, history, and current state of the project. The following …
Get started with Kubernetes (using Python)
By Jason Haley (independent consultant) | Tuesday, July 23, 2019 in Blog
So, you know you want to run your application in Kubernetes but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re getting started but still don’t know what you don’t know. In this blog you’ll walk through how to containerize an application and get it …
Deprecated APIs Removed In 1.16: Here’s What You Need To Know
By Vallery Lancey (Lyft) | Thursday, July 18, 2019 in Blog
As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old API is deprecated and eventually removed. The v1.16 release will stop serving the following deprecated API versions in favor of newer and more …
Recap of Kubernetes Contributor Summit Barcelona 2019
By Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Tuesday, June 25, 2019 in Blog
First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who made the Kubernetes Contributor Summit in Barcelona possible. We had an amazing team of volunteers tasked with planning and executing the event, and it was so much fun meeting and talking to all new and current …
Automated High Availability in kubeadm v1.15: Batteries Included But Swappable
By Lucas Käldström (Weaveworks), Fabrizio Pandini (independent) | Monday, June 24, 2019 in Blog
At the time of publication, Lucas Käldström was writing as SIG Cluster Lifecycle co-chair and as a subproject owner for kubeadm; Fabrizio Pandini was writing as a subproject owner for kubeadm. kubeadm is a tool that enables Kubernetes administrators …
Introducing Volume Cloning Alpha for Kubernetes
By John Griffith (Red Hat) | Friday, June 21, 2019 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.15 introduces alpha support for volume cloning. This feature allows you to create new volumes using the contents of existing volumes in the user's namespace using the Kubernetes API. What is a Clone? Many storage systems provide the …
Future of CRDs: Structural Schemas
By Stefan Schimanski (Red Hat) | Thursday, June 20, 2019 in Blog
CustomResourceDefinitions were introduced roughly two years ago as the primary way to extend the Kubernetes API with custom resources. From the beginning they stored arbitrary JSON data, with the exception that kind, apiVersion and metadata had to …
Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement
By Kubernetes 1.15 Release Team | Wednesday, June 19, 2019 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are: Continuous Improvement Project …
Join us at the Contributor Summit in Shanghai
By Josh Berkus (Red Hat) | Wednesday, June 12, 2019 in Blog
 For the second year, we will have a Contributor Summit event the day before …