Posts in 2017
Kubespray Ansible Playbooks foster Collaborative Kubernetes Ops
Friday, May 19, 2017 in Blog
Today’s guest post is by Rob Hirschfeld, co-founder of open infrastructure automation project, Digital Rebar and co-chair of the SIG Cluster Ops. Why Kubespray? Making Kubernetes operationally strong is a widely held priority and I track many …
Kubernetes: a monitoring guide
Friday, May 19, 2017 in Blog
Today’s post is by Jean-Mathieu Saponaro, Research & Analytics Engineer at Datadog, discussing what Kubernetes changes for monitoring, and how you can prepare to properly monitor a containerized infrastructure orchestrated by Kubernetes. …
Dancing at the Lip of a Volcano: The Kubernetes Security Process - Explained
Thursday, May 18, 2017 in Blog
Editor's note: Today’s post is by Jess Frazelle of Google and Brandon Philips of CoreOS about the Kubernetes security disclosures and response policy. Software running on servers underpins ever growing amounts of the world's commerce, communications, …
How Bitmovin is Doing Multi-Stage Canary Deployments with Kubernetes in the Cloud and On-Prem
Friday, April 21, 2017 in Blog
Editor's Note: Today’s post is by Daniel Hoelbling-Inzko, Infrastructure Architect at Bitmovin, a company that provides services that transcode digital video and audio to streaming formats, sharing insights about their use of Kubernetes. Running a …
RBAC Support in Kubernetes
Thursday, April 06, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.6 One of the highlights of the Kubernetes 1.6 release is the RBAC authorizer feature moving to beta. RBAC, Role-based access control, is an authorization …
Configuring Private DNS Zones and Upstream Nameservers in Kubernetes
Tuesday, April 04, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.6 Many users have existing domain name zones that they would like to integrate into their Kubernetes DNS namespace. For example, hybrid-cloud users may …
Advanced Scheduling in Kubernetes
Friday, March 31, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.6 The Kubernetes scheduler’s default behavior works well for most cases -- for example, it ensures that pods are only placed on nodes that have sufficient …
Scalability updates in Kubernetes 1.6: 5,000 node and 150,000 pod clusters
Thursday, March 30, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.6 Last summer we shared updates on Kubernetes scalability, since then we’ve been working hard and are proud to announce that Kubernetes 1.6 can handle …
Five Days of Kubernetes 1.6
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 in Blog
With the help of our growing community of 1,110 plus contributors, we pushed around 5,000 commits to deliver Kubernetes 1.6, bringing focus on multi-user, multi-workloads at scale. While many improvements have been contributed, we selected few …
Dynamic Provisioning and Storage Classes in Kubernetes
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 in Blog
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.6 Storage is a critical part of running stateful containers, and Kubernetes offers powerful primitives for managing it. Dynamic volume provisioning, a …