Posts in 2016
The Bet on Kubernetes, a Red Hat Perspective
By Clayton Coleman (Red Hat) | Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog
Two years ago, Red Hat made a big bet on Kubernetes. We bet on a simple idea: that an open source community is the best place to build the future of application orchestration, and that only an open source community could successfully integrate the …
Happy Birthday Kubernetes. Oh, the places you’ll go!
By Justin Santa Barbara (independent) | Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog
Dear K8s, It’s hard to believe you’re only one - you’ve grown up so fast. On the occasion of your first birthday, I thought I would write a little note about why I was so excited when you were born, why I feel fortunate to be part of the group that …
A Very Happy Birthday Kubernetes
By Sarah Novotny (independent) | Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog
Last year at OSCON, I got to reconnect with a bunch of friends and see what they have been working on. That turned out to be the Kubernetes 1.0 launch event. Even that day, it was clear the project was supported by a broad community -- a group that …
Bringing End-to-End Kubernetes Testing to Azure (Part 2)
By Travis Newhouse (AppFormix) | Monday, July 18, 2016 in Blog
Historically, Kubernetes testing has been hosted by Google, running e2e tests on Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Container Engine (GKE). In fact, the gating checks for the submit-queue are a subset of tests executed on these test platforms. …
Steering an Automation Platform at Wercker with Kubernetes
By Andy Smith (Wercker) | Friday, July 15, 2016 in Blog
At Wercker we run millions of containers that execute our users’ CI/CD jobs. The vast majority of them are ephemeral and only last as long as builds, tests and deploys take to run, the rest are ephemeral, too -- aren't we all --, but tend to last a …
Dashboard - Full Featured Web Interface for Kubernetes
By Piotr Bryk (Google) | Friday, July 15, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Kubernetes Dashboard is a project that aims to bring a general purpose monitoring and operational web interface to the Kubernetes world. Three months …
Cross Cluster Services - Achieving Higher Availability for your Kubernetes Applications
By Quinton Hoole (Google), Allan Naim (Google), | Thursday, July 14, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 As Kubernetes users scale their production deployments we’ve heard a clear desire to deploy services across zone, region, cluster and cloud boundaries. …
Citrix + Kubernetes = A Home Run
By Mikko Disini (Citrix Systems) | Thursday, July 14, 2016 in Blog
Technical collaboration is like sports. If you work together as a team, you can go down the homestretch and pull through for a win. That’s our experience with the Google Cloud Platform team. Recently, we approached Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to …
Thousand Instances of Cassandra using Kubernetes Pet Set
By Chris Love (Datapipe) | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Running The Greek Pet Monster Races For the Kubernetes 1.3 launch, we wanted to put the new Pet Set through its paces. By testing a thousand instances …
Stateful Applications in Containers!? Kubernetes 1.3 Says “Yes!”
By Mark Balch (Diamanti) | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Blog
Congratulations to the Kubernetes community on another value-packed release. A focus on stateful applications and federated clusters are two reasons why I’m so excited about 1.3. Kubernetes support for stateful apps such as Cassandra, Kafka, and …