Posts in 2018
etcd: Current status and future roadmap
By Gyuho Lee (Amazon), Joe Betz (Google Cloud) | Tuesday, December 11, 2018 in Blog
etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to manage the coordination state of distributed systems. etcd was first announced in June 2013 by CoreOS (part of Red Hat as of 2018). Since its adoption in Kubernetes in 2014, etcd …
New Contributor Workshop Shanghai
By Josh Berkus (Red Hat), Yang Li (The Plant), Puja Abbassi (Giant Swarm), XiangPeng Zhao (ZTE) | Wednesday, December 05, 2018 in Blog
Kubecon Shanghai New Contributor Summit attendees. Photo by Jerry Zhang We recently completed our first New Contributor Summit in China, at the first KubeCon in China. It was very exciting to see all of the Chinese and Asian developers (plus a few …
Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster Creation with kubeadm
By Lucas Käldström (CNCF), Luc Perkins (CNCF) | Tuesday, December 04, 2018 in Blog
kubeadm is a tool that enables Kubernetes administrators to quickly and easily bootstrap minimum viable clusters that are fully compliant with Certified Kubernetes guidelines. It's been under active development by SIG Cluster Lifecycle since 2016 and …
Kubernetes 1.13: Simplified Cluster Management with Kubeadm, Container Storage Interface (CSI), and CoreDNS as Default DNS are Now Generally Available
By Kubernetes v1.13 Release Team | Monday, December 03, 2018 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.13, our fourth and final release of 2018! Kubernetes 1.13 has been one of the shortest releases to date at 10 weeks. This release continues to focus on stability and extensibility of Kubernetes …
Kubernetes Docs Updates, International Edition
By Zach Corleissen (Linux Foundation) | Thursday, November 08, 2018 in Blog
As a co-chair of SIG Docs, I'm excited to share that Kubernetes docs have a fully mature workflow for localization (l10n). Abbreviations galore L10n is an abbreviation for localization. I18n is an abbreviation for internationalization. I18n is what …
gRPC Load Balancing on Kubernetes without Tears
By William Morgan (Buoyant) | Wednesday, November 07, 2018 in Blog
Many new gRPC users are surprised to find that Kubernetes's default load balancing often doesn't work out of the box with gRPC. For example, here's what happens when you take a simple gRPC Node.js microservices app and deploy it on Kubernetes: While …
Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 2
By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Friday, October 26, 2018 in Blog
Hello and welcome back to the second and final part about tips for KubeCon first-time speakers. If you missed the last post, please give it a read here. The Day before the Show Tip #13 - Get enough sleep. I don't know about you, but when I don't get …
Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 1
By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Thursday, October 18, 2018 in Blog
First of all, let me congratulate you to this outstanding achievement. Speaking at KubeCon, especially if it's your first time, is a tremendous honor and experience. Well done! Congrats to everyone who got Kubecon talks accepted! 👏👏👏 To everyone who …
Kubernetes 2018 North American Contributor Summit
By Bob Killen (University of Michigan), Sahdev Zala (IBM), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Blog
The 2018 North American Kubernetes Contributor Summit to be hosted right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle is shaping up to be the largest yet. It is an event that brings together new and current contributors alike to connect and share …
2018 Steering Committee Election Results
By Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF), Paris Pittman (Google) | Monday, October 15, 2018 in Blog
Results The Kubernetes Steering Committee Election is now complete and the following candidates came ahead to secure two year terms that start immediately: Aaron Crickenberger, Google, @spiffxp Davanum Srinivas, Huawei, @dims Tim St. Clair, Heptio, …