Posts in 2017
Five Days of Kubernetes 1.6
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 in Blog
With the help of our growing community of 1,110 plus contributors, we pushed around 5,000 commits to deliver Kubernetes 1.6, bringing focus on multi-user, multi-workloads at scale. While many improvements have been contributed, we selected few …
Dynamic Provisioning and Storage Classes in Kubernetes
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.6 Storage is a critical part of running stateful containers, and Kubernetes offers powerful primitives for managing it. Dynamic volume provisioning, a …
Kubernetes 1.6: Multi-user, Multi-workloads at Scale
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 in Blog
Today we’re announcing the release of Kubernetes 1.6. In this release the community’s focus is on scale and automation, to help you deploy multiple workloads to multiple users on a cluster. We are announcing that 5,000 node clusters are supported. We …
The K8sPort: Engaging Kubernetes Community One Activity at a Time
Friday, March 24, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: Today’s post is by Ryan Quackenbush, Advocacy Programs Manager at Apprenda, showing a new community portal for Kubernetes advocates: the K8sPort. The K8sPort is a hub designed to help you, the Kubernetes community, earn credit for the …
Deploying PostgreSQL Clusters using StatefulSets
Friday, February 24, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to build a PostgreSQL cluster using the new Kubernetes StatefulSet feature. In an earlier post, I described how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using …
Containers as a Service, the foundation for next generation PaaS
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Blog
Today’s post is by Brendan Burns, Partner Architect, at Microsoft & Kubernetes co-founder. Containers are revolutionizing the way that people build, package and deploy software. But what is often overlooked is how they are revolutionizing the way …
Inside JD.com's Shift to Kubernetes from OpenStack
Friday, February 10, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: Today’s post is by the Infrastructure Platform Department team at JD.com about their transition from OpenStack to Kubernetes. JD.com is one of China’s largest companies and the first Chinese Internet company to make the Global Fortune …
Run Deep Learning with PaddlePaddle on Kubernetes
Wednesday, February 08, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: Today's post is a joint post from the deep learning team at Baidu and the etcd team at CoreOS. **** What is PaddlePaddle PaddlePaddle is an easy-to-use, efficient, flexible and scalable deep learning platform originally developed at …
Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters
Thursday, February 02, 2017 in Blog
Today’s post shows how to set-up a reliable, highly available distributed Kubernetes cluster. The support for running such clusters on Google Compute Engine (GCE) was added as an alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.5 release. Motivation We will create a …
Running MongoDB on Kubernetes with StatefulSets
Monday, January 30, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: Today’s post is by Sandeep Dinesh, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform, showing how to run a database in a container. Warning: This post is several years old. The code examples need changes to work on a current Kubernetes …