Posts in 2021
Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know
By Celeste Horgan, Adolfo García Veytia, James Laverack, Jeremy Rickard | Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Blog
On April 23, 2021, the Release Team merged a Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) changing the Kubernetes release cycle from four releases a year (once a quarter) to three releases a year. This blog post provides a high level overview about what …
Spotlight on SIG Usability
By Kunal Kushwaha (Civo) | Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Blog
Note:SIG Usability, which is featured in this Spotlight blog, has been deprecated and is no longer active. As a result, the links and information provided in this blog post may no longer be valid or relevant. Should there be renewed interest and …
Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know
By Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog
As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old APIs they replace are deprecated, and eventually removed. See Kubernetes API removals to read more about Kubernetes' policy on removing APIs. We …
Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports
By Divya Mohan | Monday, June 28, 2021 in Blog
Given the growth and scale of the Kubernetes project, the existing reporting mechanisms were proving to be inadequate and challenging. Kubernetes is a large open source project. With over 100000 commits just to the main k/kubernetes repository, …
Writing a Controller for Pod Labels
By Arthur Busser (Padok) | Monday, June 21, 2021 in Blog
Operators are proving to be an excellent solution to running stateful distributed applications in Kubernetes. Open source tools like the Operator SDK provide ways to build reliable and maintainable operators, making it easier to extend Kubernetes and …
Using Finalizers to Control Deletion
By Aaron Alpar (Kasten) | Friday, May 14, 2021 in Blog
Deleting objects in Kubernetes can be challenging. You may think you’ve deleted something, only to find it still persists. While issuing a kubectl delete command and hoping for the best might work for day-to-day operations, understanding how …
Kubernetes 1.21: Metrics Stability hits GA
By Han Kang (Google), Elana Hashman (Red Hat) | Friday, April 23, 2021 in Blog
Kubernetes 1.21 marks the graduation of the metrics stability framework and along with it, the first officially supported stable metrics. Not only do stable metrics come with supportability guarantees, the metrics stability framework brings escape …
Evolving Kubernetes networking with the Gateway API
By Mark Church (Google), Harry Bagdi (Kong), Daneyon Hanson (Red Hat), Nick Young (VMware), Manuel Zapf (Traefik Labs) | Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Blog
The Ingress resource is one of the many Kubernetes success stories. It created a diverse ecosystem of Ingress controllers which were used across hundreds of thousands of clusters in a standardized and consistent way. This standardization helped users …
Graceful Node Shutdown Goes Beta
By David Porter (Google), Mrunal Patel (Red Hat), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in Blog
Graceful node shutdown, beta in 1.21, enables kubelet to gracefully evict pods during a node shutdown. Kubernetes is a distributed system and as such we need to be prepared for inevitable failures — nodes will fail, containers might crash or be …
Defining Network Policy Conformance for Container Network Interface (CNI) providers
By Matt Fenwick (Synopsys), Jay Vyas (VMWare), Ricardo Katz, Amim Knabben (Loadsmart), Douglas Schilling Landgraf (Red Hat), Christopher Tomkins (Tigera) | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Blog
Special thanks to Tim Hockin and Bowie Du (Google), Dan Winship and Antonio Ojea (Red Hat), Casey Davenport and Shaun Crampton (Tigera), and Abhishek Raut and Antonin Bas (VMware) for being supportive of this work, and working with us to resolve …