Posts in 2016
Why Kubernetes doesn’t use libnetwork
By Tim Hockin (Google) | Thursday, January 14, 2016 in Blog
Kubernetes has had a very basic form of network plugins since before version 1.0 was released — around the same time as Docker's libnetwork and Container Network Model (CNM) was introduced. Unlike libnetwork, the Kubernetes plugin system still …
Simple leader election with Kubernetes and Docker
Monday, January 11, 2016 in Blog
Overview Kubernetes simplifies the deployment and operational management of services running on clusters. However, it also simplifies the development of these services. In this post we'll see how you can use Kubernetes to easily perform leader …
Posts in 2015
Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the installation (Part 2)
By Arjen Wassink (Quintor) | Tuesday, December 22, 2015 in Blog
At Devoxx Belgium and Devoxx Morocco, Ray Tsang and I (Arjen Wassink) showed a Raspberry Pi cluster we built at Quintor running HypriotOS, Docker and Kubernetes. While we received many compliments on the talk, the most common question was about how …
Managing Kubernetes Pods, Services and Replication Controllers with Puppet
By Gareth Rushgrove (Puppet Labs) | Thursday, December 17, 2015 in Blog
People familiar with Puppet might have used it for managing files, packages and users on host computers. But Puppet is first and foremost a configuration management tool, and config management is a much broader discipline than just managing …
How Weave built a multi-deployment solution for Scope using Kubernetes
By Peter Bourgon (Weaveworks) | Saturday, December 12, 2015 in Blog
Earlier this year at Weaveworks we launched Weave Scope, an open source solution for visualization and monitoring of containerised apps and services. Recently we released a hosted Scope service into an Early Access Program. Today, we want to walk you …
Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the shopping list (Part 1)
By Arjen Wassink (Quintor) | Wednesday, November 25, 2015 in Blog
At Devoxx Belgium and Devoxx Morocco, Ray Tsang and I showed a Raspberry Pi cluster we built at Quintor running HypriotOS, Docker and Kubernetes. For those who did not see the talks, you can check out an abbreviated version of the demo or the full …
Monitoring Kubernetes with Sysdig
By Chris Crane (Sysdig) | Thursday, November 19, 2015 in Blog
Today we’re sharing a guest post by Chris Crane from Sysdig about their monitoring integration into Kubernetes. Kubernetes offers a full environment to write scalable and service-based applications. It takes care of things like container grouping, …
One million requests per second: Dependable and dynamic distributed systems at scale
By Brendan Burns (Google) | Wednesday, November 11, 2015 in Blog
Recently, I’ve gotten in the habit of telling people that building a reliable service isn’t that hard. If you give me two Compute Engine virtual machines, a Cloud Load balancer, supervisord and nginx, I can create you a static web service that will …
Kubernetes 1.1 Performance upgrades, improved tooling and a growing community
By David Aronchick (Google) | Monday, November 09, 2015 in Blog
Since the Kubernetes 1.0 release in July, we’ve seen tremendous adoption by companies building distributed systems to manage their container clusters. We’re also been humbled by the rapid growth of the community who help make Kubernetes better …
Kubernetes as Foundation for Cloud Native PaaS
Tuesday, November 03, 2015 in Blog
With Kubernetes continuing to gain momentum as a critical tool for building and scaling container based applications, we’ve been thrilled to see a growing number of platform as a service (PaaS) offerings adopt it as a foundation. PaaS developers have …