Posts in 2023

  • Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview

    Tuesday, October 24, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Craig Box Since 2018, one of my favourite contributions to the Kubernetes community has been to share the story of each release. Many of these stories were told on behalf of a past employer; by popular demand, I've brought them back, now …

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  • PersistentVolume Last Phase Transition Time in Kubernetes

    Monday, October 23, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Roman Bednář (Red Hat) In the recent Kubernetes v1.28 release, we (SIG Storage) introduced a new alpha feature that aims to improve PersistentVolume (PV) storage management and help cluster administrators gain better insights into the …

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  • A Quick Recap of 2023 China Kubernetes Contributor Summit

    Friday, October 20, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Paco Xu and Michael Yao (DaoCloud) On September 26, 2023, the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023, nearly 50 contributors gathered in Shanghai for the Kubernetes Contributor Summit. All participants in the …

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  • Bootstrap an Air Gapped Cluster With Kubeadm

    Thursday, October 12, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Rob Mengert (Defense Unicorns) Ever wonder how software gets deployed onto a system that is deliberately disconnected from the Internet and other networks? These systems are typically disconnected due to their sensitive nature. Sensitive as …

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  • CRI-O is moving towards pkgs.k8s.io

    Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Sascha Grunert The Kubernetes community recently announced that their legacy package repositories are frozen, and now they moved to introduced community-owned package repositories powered by the OpenBuildService (OBS). CRI-O has a long …

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  • Spotlight on SIG Architecture: Conformance

    Thursday, October 05, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) This is the first interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that will cover the different subprojects. We start with the SIG Architecture: Conformance subproject In this SIG Architecture spotlight, we …

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  • Announcing the 2023 Steering Committee Election Results

    Monday, October 02, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Kaslin Fields The 2023 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2023. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are …

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  • Happy 7th Birthday kubeadm!

    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Fabrizio Pandini (VMware) What a journey so far! Starting from the initial blog post “How we made Kubernetes insanely easy to install” in September 2016, followed by an exciting growth that lead to general availability / “Production-Ready …

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  • kubeadm: Use etcd Learner to Join a Control Plane Node Safely

    Monday, September 25, 2023 in Blog

    Author: Paco Xu (DaoCloud) The kubeadm tool now supports etcd learner mode, which allows you to enhance the resilience and stability of your Kubernetes clusters by leveraging the learner mode feature introduced in etcd version 3.4. This guide will …

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  • User Namespaces: Now Supports Running Stateful Pods in Alpha!

    Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in Blog

    Authors: Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Microsoft), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat), Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user namespaces for only stateless pods. Kubernetes 1.28 lifted that restriction, after some design changes …

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