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Posts in 2020
Ephemeral volumes with storage capacity tracking: EmptyDir on steroids
Tuesday, September 01, 2020 in Blog
Author: Patrick Ohly (Intel) Some applications need additional storage but don't care whether that data is stored persistently across restarts. For example, caching services are often limited by memory size and can move infrequently used data into …
Increasing the Kubernetes Support Window to One Year
Monday, August 31, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Tim Pepper (VMware), Nick Young (VMware) Starting with Kubernetes 1.19, the support window for Kubernetes versions will increase from 9 months to one year. The longer support window is intended to allow organizations to perform major …
Kubernetes 1.19: Accentuate the Paw-sitive
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.19 Release Team Finally, we have arrived with Kubernetes 1.19, the second release for 2020, and by far the longest release cycle lasting 20 weeks in total. It consists of 34 enhancements: 10 enhancements are moving to stable, 15 …
Moving Forward From Beta
Friday, August 21, 2020 in Blog
Author: Tim Bannister, The Scale Factory In Kubernetes, features follow a defined lifecycle. First, as the twinkle of an eye in an interested developer. Maybe, then, sketched in online discussions, drawn on the online equivalent of a cafe napkin. …
Introducing Hierarchical Namespaces
Friday, August 14, 2020 in Blog
Author: Adrian Ludwin (Google) Safely hosting large numbers of users on a single Kubernetes cluster has always been a troublesome task. One key reason for this is that different organizations use Kubernetes in different ways, and so no one tenancy …
Physics, politics and Pull Requests: the Kubernetes 1.18 release interview
Monday, August 03, 2020 in Blog
Author: Craig Box (Google) The start of the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't delay the release of Kubernetes 1.18, but unfortunately a small bug could — thankfully only by a day. This was the last cat that needed to be herded by 1.18 release lead Jorge …
Music and math: the Kubernetes 1.17 release interview
Monday, July 27, 2020 in Blog
Author: Adam Glick (Google) Every time the Kubernetes release train stops at the station, we like to ask the release lead to take a moment to reflect on their experience. That takes the form of an interview on the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from …
SIG-Windows Spotlight
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in Blog
This post tells the story of how Kubernetes contributors work together to provide a container orchestrator that works for both Linux and Windows. Most people who are familiar with Kubernetes are probably used to associating it with Linux. The …
Working with Terraform and Kubernetes
Monday, June 29, 2020 in Blog
Author: Philipp Strube, Kubestack Maintaining Kubestack, an open-source Terraform GitOps Framework for Kubernetes, I unsurprisingly spend a lot of time working with Terraform and Kubernetes. Kubestack provisions managed Kubernetes services like AKS, …
A Better Docs UX With Docsy
Monday, June 15, 2020 in Blog
Author: Zach Corleissen, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Editor's note: Zach is one of the chairs for the Kubernetes documentation special interest group (SIG Docs). I'm pleased to announce that the Kubernetes website now features the Docsy Hugo …