Posts in 2020
KubeInvaders - Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
By Eugenio Marzo (Sourcesense) | Wednesday, January 22, 2020 in Blog
Some months ago, I released my latest project called KubeInvaders. The first time I shared it with the community was during an Openshift Commons Briefing session. Kubenvaders is a Gamified Chaos Engineering tool for Kubernetes and Openshift and helps …
Reviewing 2019 in Docs
By Zach Corleissen (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) | Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Blog
Hi, folks! I'm one of the co-chairs for the Kubernetes documentation special interest group (SIG Docs). This blog post is a review of SIG Docs in 2019. Our contributors did amazing work last year, and I want to highlight their successes. Although I …
CSI Ephemeral Inline Volumes
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Blog
Typically, volumes provided by an external storage driver in Kubernetes are persistent, with a lifecycle that is completely independent of pods or (as a special case) loosely coupled to the first pod which uses a volume (late binding mode). The …
Kubernetes on MIPS
By TimYin Shi, Dominic Yin, Wang Zhan, Jessica Jiang, Will Cai, Jeffrey Gao, Simon Sun (Inspur) | Wednesday, January 15, 2020 in Blog
Background MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), appeared in 1981 and developed by MIPS Technologies. Now MIPS architecture is widely used in many …
Announcing the Kubernetes bug bounty program
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Maya Kaczorowski and Tim Allclair, Google, on behalf of the Kubernetes Product Security Committee Today, the Kubernetes Product Security Committee is launching a new bug bounty program, funded by the CNCF, to reward researchers finding …
Remembering Brad Childs
By Paul Morie (Red Hat) | Friday, January 10, 2020 in Blog
Last year, the Kubernetes family lost one of its own. Brad Childs was a SIG Storage chair and long time contributor to the project. Brad worked on a number of features in storage and was known as much for his friendliness and sense of humor as for …
Testing of CSI drivers
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Wednesday, January 08, 2020 in Blog
When developing a Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, it is useful to leverage as much prior work as possible. This includes source code (like the sample CSI hostpath driver) but also existing tests. Besides saving time, using tests written by …
Posts in 2019
Kubernetes 1.17: Stability
By Kubernetes 1.17 Release Team | Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.17, our fourth and final release of 2019! Kubernetes v1.17 consists of 22 enhancements: 14 enhancements have graduated to stable, 4 enhancements are moving to beta, and 4 enhancements are …
Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta
By Xing Yang (VMware), Xiangqian Yu (Google) | Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog
The Kubernetes Volume Snapshot feature is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. It was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.12, with a second alpha with breaking changes in Kubernetes v1.13. This post summarizes the changes in the beta release. What is a …
Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes In-Tree to CSI Volume Migration Moves to Beta
By David Zhu (Software Engineer, Google) | Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog
The Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. CSI migration was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.14. Kubernetes features are generally introduced as alpha and …