Posts in 2016
How we made Kubernetes insanely easy to install
By Luke Marsden (Weaveworks) | Wednesday, September 28, 2016 in Blog
Over at SIG-cluster-lifecycle, we've been hard at work the last few months on kubeadm, a tool that makes Kubernetes dramatically easier to install. We've heard from users that installing Kubernetes is harder than it should be, and we want folks to be …
How Qbox Saved 50% per Month on AWS Bills Using Kubernetes and Supergiant
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by the team at Qbox, a hosted Elasticsearch provider sharing their experience with Kubernetes and how it helped save them fifty-percent off their cloud bill. A little over a year ago, we at Qbox faced an existential …
Kubernetes 1.4: Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
By Aparna Sinha (Google) | Monday, September 26, 2016 in Blog
Today we’re happy to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.4. Since the release to general availability just over 15 months ago, Kubernetes has continued to grow and achieve broad adoption across the industry. From brand new startups to large-scale …
High performance network policies in Kubernetes clusters
By Juergen Brendel (Pani Networks), Pritesh Kothari (Pani Networks), Chris Marin (Pani Networks) | Wednesday, September 21, 2016 in Blog
Network Policies Since the release of Kubernetes 1.3 back in July, users have been able to define and enforce network policies in their clusters. These policies are firewall rules that specify permissible types of traffic to, from and between pods. …
Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster using Helm
By Jeff McCormick (Crunchy Data) | Friday, September 09, 2016 in Blog
Crunchy Data supplies a set of open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL related containers. The Crunchy PostgreSQL Container Suite includes containers that deploy, monitor, and administer the open source PostgreSQL database, for more details view this …
Deploying to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with kit
By Chesley Brown (InVision) | Tuesday, September 06, 2016 in Blog
Our Docker journey at InVision may sound familiar. We started with Docker in our development environments, trying to get consistency there first. We wrangled our legacy monolith application into Docker images and streamlined our Dockerfiles to …
Cloud Native Application Interfaces
By Brian Grant (Google), Craig Mcluckie (Google) | Thursday, September 01, 2016 in Blog
Standard Interfaces (or, the Thirteenth Factor) When you say we need ‘software standards’ in erudite company, you get some interesting looks. Most concede that software standards have been central to the success of the boldest and most successful …
Security Best Practices for Kubernetes Deployment
By Michael Cherny (Aqua Security) | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 in Blog
Note: some of the recommendations in this post are no longer current. Current cluster hardening options are described in this documentation. Editor’s note: today’s post is by Amir Jerbi and Michael Cherny of Aqua Security, describing security best …
Scaling Stateful Applications using Kubernetes Pet Sets and FlexVolumes with Datera Elastic Data Fabric
By Shailesh Mittal (Datera Inc), Ashok Rajagopala (Datera Inc) | Monday, August 29, 2016 in Blog
Introduction Persistent volumes in Kubernetes are foundational as customers move beyond stateless workloads to run stateful applications. While Kubernetes has supported stateful applications such as MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra, and Couchbase for a while, …
SIG Apps: build apps for and operate them in Kubernetes
By Matt Farina (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) | Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: This post is by the Kubernetes SIG-Apps team sharing how they focus on the developer and devops experience of running applications in Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an incredible manager for containerized applications. Because of this, …