Posts in 2019

  • Kubernetes End-to-end Testing for Everyone

    By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Friday, March 22, 2019 in Blog

    More and more components that used to be part of Kubernetes are now being developed outside of Kubernetes. For example, storage drivers used to be compiled into Kubernetes binaries, then were moved into stand-alone FlexVolume binaries on the host, …

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  • A Guide to Kubernetes Admission Controllers

    By Malte Isberner (StackRox) | Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Blog

    Kubernetes has greatly improved the speed and manageability of backend clusters in production today. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard in container orchestrators thanks to its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Kubernetes also …

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  • A Look Back and What's in Store for Kubernetes Contributor Summits

    By Paris Pittman (Google), Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Wednesday, March 20, 2019 in Blog

    Seattle Contributor Summit As our contributing community grows in great numbers, with more than 16,000 contributors this year across 150+ GitHub repositories, it’s important to provide face to face connections for our large distributed teams to have …

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  • KubeEdge, a Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework

    By Sanil Kumar D (Huawei), Jun Du(Huawei) | Tuesday, March 19, 2019 in Blog

    KubeEdge becomes the first Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Platform with both Edge and Cloud components open sourced! Open source edge computing is going through its most dynamic phase of development in the industry. So many open source platforms, …

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  • Kubernetes Setup Using Ansible and Vagrant

    By Naresh L J (Infosys) | Friday, March 15, 2019 in Blog

    Objective This blog post describes the steps required to setup a multi node Kubernetes cluster for development purposes. This setup provides a production-like cluster that can be setup on your local machine. Why do we require multi node cluster …

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  • Raw Block Volume support to Beta

    By Ben Swartzlander (NetApp), Saad Ali (Google) | Thursday, March 07, 2019 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.13 moves raw block volume support to beta. This feature allows persistent volumes to be exposed inside containers as a block device instead of as a mounted file system. What are block devices? Block devices enable random access to data …

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  • Automate Operations on your Cluster with OperatorHub.io

    By Diane Mueller (Red Hat) | Thursday, February 28, 2019 in Blog

    One of the important challenges facing developers and Kubernetes administrators has been a lack of ability to quickly find common services that are operationally ready for Kubernetes. Typically, the presence of an Operator for a specific service - a …

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  • Building a Kubernetes Edge (Ingress) Control Plane for Envoy v2

    By Daniel Bryant (Datawire), Flynn (Datawire), Richard Li (Datawire) | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 in Blog

    Kubernetes has become the de facto runtime for container-based microservice applications, but this orchestration framework alone does not provide all of the infrastructure necessary for running a distributed system. Microservices typically …

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  • Runc and CVE-2019-5736

    By Kubernetes Product Security Committee | Monday, February 11, 2019 in Blog

    This morning a container escape vulnerability in runc was announced. We wanted to provide some guidance to Kubernetes users to ensure everyone is safe and secure. What is runc? Very briefly, runc is the low-level tool which does the heavy lifting of …

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  • Poseidon-Firmament Scheduler – Flow Network Graph Based Scheduler

    By Deepak Vij (Huawei), Shivram Shrivastava (Huawei) | Wednesday, February 06, 2019 in Blog

    Introduction Cluster Management systems such as Mesos, Google Borg, Kubernetes etc. in a cloud scale datacenter environment (also termed as Datacenter-as-a-Computer or Warehouse-Scale Computing - WSC) typically manage application workloads by …

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