Posts in 2021

  • Updating NGINX-Ingress to use the stable Ingress API

    Monday, July 26, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: James Strong, Ricardo Katz With all Kubernetes APIs, there is a process to creating, maintaining, and ultimately deprecating them once they become GA. The networking.k8s.io API group is no different. The upcoming Kubernetes 1.22 release will …

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  • Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know

    Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Celeste Horgan, Adolfo García Veytia, James Laverack, Jeremy Rickard On April 23, 2021, the Release Team merged a Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) changing the Kubernetes release cycle from four releases a year (once a quarter) to three …

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  • Spotlight on SIG Usability

    Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Blog

    Author: Kunal Kushwaha (Civo) Note: SIG Usability, which is featured in this Spotlight blog, has been deprecated and is no longer active. As a result, the links and information provided in this blog post may no longer be valid or relevant. Should …

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  • Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know

    Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old APIs they replace are deprecated, and eventually removed. See …

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  • Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports

    Monday, June 28, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Divya Mohan Given the growth and scale of the Kubernetes project, the existing reporting mechanisms were proving to be inadequate and challenging. Kubernetes is a large open source project. With over 100000 commits just to the main …

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  • Writing a Controller for Pod Labels

    Monday, June 21, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Arthur Busser (Padok) Operators are proving to be an excellent solution to running stateful distributed applications in Kubernetes. Open source tools like the Operator SDK provide ways to build reliable and maintainable operators, making it …

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  • Using Finalizers to Control Deletion

    Friday, May 14, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Aaron Alpar (Kasten) Deleting objects in Kubernetes can be challenging. You may think you’ve deleted something, only to find it still persists. While issuing a kubectl delete command and hoping for the best might work for day-to-day …

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  • Kubernetes 1.21: Metrics Stability hits GA

    Friday, April 23, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Han Kang (Google), Elana Hashman (Red Hat) Kubernetes 1.21 marks the graduation of the metrics stability framework and along with it, the first officially supported stable metrics. Not only do stable metrics come with supportability …

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  • Evolving Kubernetes networking with the Gateway API

    Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: Mark Church (Google), Harry Bagdi (Kong), Daneyon Hanson (Red Hat), Nick Young (VMware), Manuel Zapf (Traefik Labs) The Ingress resource is one of the many Kubernetes success stories. It created a diverse ecosystem of Ingress controllers …

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  • Graceful Node Shutdown Goes Beta

    Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in Blog

    Authors: David Porter (Google), Mrunal Patel (Red Hat), and Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) Graceful node shutdown, beta in 1.21, enables kubelet to gracefully evict pods during a node shutdown. Kubernetes is a distributed system and as such we …

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