Posts in 2017

  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • Kubernetes 1.8: Security, Workloads and Feature Depth

    By Kubernetes v1.8 Release Team | Friday, September 29, 2017 in Blog

    We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.8, our third release this year. Kubernetes 1.8 represents a snapshot of many exciting enhancements and refinements underway. In addition to functional improvements, we’re increasing project-wide …

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  • Kubernetes StatefulSets & DaemonSets Updates

    By Janet Kuo (Google), Kenneth Owens (Kenneth Owens) | Wednesday, September 27, 2017 in Blog

    This post talks about recent updates to the DaemonSet and StatefulSet API objects for Kubernetes. We explore these features using Apache ZooKeeper and Apache Kafka StatefulSets and a Prometheus node exporter DaemonSet. In Kubernetes 1.6, we added the …

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  • Introducing the Resource Management Working Group

    By Jeremy Eder (Red Hat) | Thursday, September 21, 2017 in Blog

    Why are we here? Kubernetes has evolved to support diverse and increasingly complex classes of applications. We can onboard and scale out modern, cloud-native web applications based on microservices, batch jobs, and stateful applications with …

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