Posts in 2016
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 …
Kubernetes in Rancher: the further evolution
By Alena Prokharchyk (Rancher Labs) | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in Blog
Kubernetes was the first external orchestration platform supported by Rancher, and since its release, it has become one of the most widely used among our users, and continues to grow rapidly in adoption. As Kubernetes has evolved, so has Rancher in …
Autoscaling in Kubernetes
By Jerzy Szczepkowski (Google), Marcin Wielgus (Google) | Tuesday, July 12, 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 Customers using Kubernetes respond to end user requests quickly and ship software faster than ever before. But what happens when you build a service …
rktnetes brings rkt container engine to Kubernetes
By Yifan Gu (CoreOS), Josh Wood (CoreOS) | Monday, July 11, 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 part of Kubernetes 1.3, we’re happy to report that our work to bring interchangeable container engines to Kubernetes is bearing early fruit. What we …