Posts in 2016
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)
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
Thursday, December 17, 2015 in Blog
Today’s guest post is written by Gareth Rushgrove, Senior Software Engineer at Puppet Labs, a leader in IT automation. Gareth tells us about a new Puppet module that helps manage resources in Kubernetes. People familiar with Puppet might have used it …
How Weave built a multi-deployment solution for Scope using Kubernetes
Saturday, December 12, 2015 in Blog
Today we hear from Peter Bourgon, Software Engineer at Weaveworks, a company that provides software for developers to network, monitor and control microservices-based apps in docker containers. Peter tells us what was involved in selecting and …
Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the shopping list (Part 1)
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
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
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
Monday, November 09, 2015 in Blog
Author: David Aronchick (Google) 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 …
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 …
Some things you didn’t know about kubectl
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 in Blog
Author: Brendan Burns (Google) kubectl is the command line tool for interacting with Kubernetes clusters. Many people use it every day to deploy their container workloads into production clusters. But there’s more to kubectl than just kubectl create …