Posts in 2017
Autoscaling in Kubernetes
Friday, November 17, 2017 in Blog
Kubernetes allows developers to automatically adjust cluster sizes and the number of pod replicas based on current traffic and load. These adjustments reduce the amount of unused nodes, saving money and resources. In this talk, Marcin Wielgus of …
Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program: Launch Celebration Round Up
Thursday, November 16, 2017 in Blog
This week the CNCFⓇ certified the first group of KubernetesⓇ offerings under the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. These first certifications follow a beta phase during which we invited participants to submit conformance results. The …
Kubernetes is Still Hard (for Developers)
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 in Blog
Kubernetes has made the Ops experience much easier, but how does the developer experience compare? Ops teams can deploy a Kubernetes cluster in a matter of minutes. But developers need to understand a host of new concepts before beginning to work …
Securing Software Supply Chain with Grafeas
By Kelsey Hightower (Google), Sandra Guo (Google) | Friday, November 03, 2017 in Blog
Kubernetes has evolved to support increasingly complex classes of applications, enabling the development of two major industry trends: hybrid cloud and microservices. With increasing complexity in production environments, customers—especially …
Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes
By Lantao Liu (Google), Mike Brown (IBM) | Thursday, November 02, 2017 in Blog
Update: Kubernetes support for Docker via dockershim is now deprecated. For more information, read the deprecation notice. You can also discuss the deprecation via a dedicated GitHub issue. A container runtime is software that executes containers and …
Kubernetes the Easy Way
By Dan Garfield (Codefresh) | Wednesday, November 01, 2017 in Blog
Kelsey Hightower wrote an invaluable guide for Kubernetes called Kubernetes the Hard Way. It’s an awesome resource for those looking to understand the ins and outs of Kubernetes—but what if you want to put Kubernetes on easy mode? That’s something …
Enforcing Network Policies in Kubernetes
By Ahmet Alp Balkan (Google) | Monday, October 30, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8. Kubernetes now offers functionality to enforce rules about which pods can communicate with each other using network policies. This feature is has …
Using RBAC, Generally Available in Kubernetes v1.8
By Eric Chiang (CoreOS) | Saturday, October 28, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8. Kubernetes 1.8 represents a significant milestone for the role-based access control (RBAC) authorizer, which was promoted to GA in this release. RBAC …
It Takes a Village to Raise a Kubernetes
Thursday, October 26, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8, written by Jaice Singer DuMars from Microsoft. Each time we release a new version of Kubernetes, it’s enthralling to see how the community responds to …
kubeadm v1.8 Released: Introducing Easy Upgrades for Kubernetes Clusters
By Lucas Käldström (Weaveworks) | Wednesday, October 25, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8. Since its debut in September 2016, the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group (SIG) has established kubeadm as the easiest Kubernetes bootstrap …