Posts in 2017
Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes
By Lantao Liu (Google), Mike Brown (IBM) | Thursday, November 02, 2017 in Blog
Update: Kubernetes support for Docker via dockershim is now deprecated. For more information, read the deprecation notice. You can also discuss the deprecation via a dedicated GitHub issue. A container runtime is software that executes containers and …
Kubernetes the Easy Way
By Dan Garfield (Codefresh) | Wednesday, November 01, 2017 in Blog
Kelsey Hightower wrote an invaluable guide for Kubernetes called Kubernetes the Hard Way. It’s an awesome resource for those looking to understand the ins and outs of Kubernetes—but what if you want to put Kubernetes on easy mode? That’s something …
Enforcing Network Policies in Kubernetes
By Ahmet Alp Balkan (Google) | Monday, October 30, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8. Kubernetes now offers functionality to enforce rules about which pods can communicate with each other using network policies. This feature is has …
Using RBAC, Generally Available in Kubernetes v1.8
By Eric Chiang (CoreOS) | Saturday, October 28, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8. Kubernetes 1.8 represents a significant milestone for the role-based access control (RBAC) authorizer, which was promoted to GA in this release. RBAC …
It Takes a Village to Raise a Kubernetes
Thursday, October 26, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8, written by Jaice Singer DuMars from Microsoft. Each time we release a new version of Kubernetes, it’s enthralling to see how the community responds to …
kubeadm v1.8 Released: Introducing Easy Upgrades for Kubernetes Clusters
By Lucas Käldström (Weaveworks) | Wednesday, October 25, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.8. Since its debut in September 2016, the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group (SIG) has established kubeadm as the easiest Kubernetes bootstrap …
Five Days of Kubernetes 1.8
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 in Blog
Kubernetes 1.8 is live, made possible by hundreds of contributors pushing thousands of commits in this latest releases. The community has tallied more than 66,000 commits in the main repo and continues rapid growth outside of the main repo, which …
Introducing Software Certification for Kubernetes
By William Denniss (Google) | Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Blog
Over the last three years, Kubernetes® has seen wide-scale adoption by a vibrant and diverse community of providers. In fact, there are now more than 60 known Kubernetes platforms and distributions. From the start, one goal of Kubernetes has been …
Request Routing and Policy Management with the Istio Service Mesh
By Frank Budinsky (IBM), Andra Cismaru (Google), Israel Shalom (Google) | Tuesday, October 10, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: Today’s post is the second post in a three-part series on Istio. In a previous article, we looked at a simple application (Bookinfo) that is composed of four separate microservices. The article showed how to deploy an application with …
Kubernetes Community Steering Committee Election Results
Thursday, October 05, 2017 in Blog
Beginning with the announcement of Kubernetes 1.0 at OSCON in 2015, there has been a concerted effort to share the power and burden of leadership across the Kubernetes community. With the work of the Bootstrap Governance Committee, consisting of …