Posts in 2022

  • Dockershim: The Historical Context

    By Kat Cosgrove | Tuesday, May 03, 2022 in Blog

    Dockershim has been removed as of Kubernetes v1.24, and this is a positive move for the project. However, context is important for fully understanding something, be it socially or in software development, and this deserves a more in-depth review. …

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  • Frontiers, fsGroups and frogs: the Kubernetes 1.23 release interview

    By Craig Box (Google) | Friday, April 29, 2022 in Blog

    One of the highlights of hosting the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google is talking to the release managers for each new Kubernetes version. The release team is constantly refreshing. Many working their way from small documentation fixes, step up …

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  • Increasing the security bar in Ingress-NGINX v1.2.0

    By Ricardo Katz (VMware), James Strong (Chainguard) | Thursday, April 28, 2022 in Blog

    The Ingress may be one of the most targeted components of Kubernetes. An Ingress typically defines an HTTP reverse proxy, exposed to the Internet, containing multiple websites, and with some privileged access to Kubernetes API (such as to read …

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  • Kubernetes Removals and Deprecations In 1.24

    By Mickey Boxell (Oracle) | Thursday, April 07, 2022 in Blog

    As Kubernetes evolves, features and APIs are regularly revisited and removed. New features may offer an alternative or improved approach to solving existing problems, motivating the team to remove the old approach. We want to make sure you are aware …

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  • Is Your Cluster Ready for v1.24?

    By Kat Cosgrove | Thursday, March 31, 2022 in Blog

    Way back in December of 2020, Kubernetes announced the deprecation of Dockershim. In Kubernetes, dockershim is a software shim that allows you to use the entire Docker engine as your container runtime within Kubernetes. In the upcoming v1.24 release, …

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  • Meet Our Contributors - APAC (Aus-NZ region)

    Wednesday, March 16, 2022 in Blog

    Authors & Interviewers: Anubhav Vardhan, Atharva Shinde, Avinesh Tripathi, Brad McCoy, Debabrata Panigrahi, Jayesh Srivastava, Kunal Verma, Pranshu Srivastava, Priyanka Saggu, Purneswar Prasad, Vedant Kakde Good day, everyone 👋 Welcome back to …

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  • Dockershim Removal FAQ

    Thursday, February 17, 2022 in Blog

    This supersedes the original Dockershim Deprecation FAQ article, published in late 2020. The article includes updates from the v1.24 release of Kubernetes. This document goes over some frequently asked questions regarding the removal of dockershim …

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  • SIG Node CI Subproject Celebrates Two Years of Test Improvements

    By Sergey Kanzhelev (Google), Elana Hashman (Red Hat) | Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in Blog

    Ensuring the reliability of SIG Node upstream code is a continuous effort that takes a lot of behind-the-scenes effort from many contributors. There are frequent releases of Kubernetes, base operating systems, container runtimes, and test …

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  • Spotlight on SIG Multicluster

    By Dewan Ahmed (Aiven), Chris Short (AWS) | Monday, February 07, 2022 in Blog

    Introduction SIG Multicluster is the SIG focused on how Kubernetes concepts are expanded and used beyond the cluster boundary. Historically, Kubernetes resources only interacted within that boundary - KRU or Kubernetes Resource Universe (not an …

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  • Securing Admission Controllers

    By Rory McCune (Aqua Security) | Wednesday, January 19, 2022 in Blog

    Admission control is a key part of Kubernetes security, alongside authentication and authorization. Webhook admission controllers are extensively used to help improve the security of Kubernetes clusters in a variety of ways including restricting the …

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