Kubernetes Blog

Posts in 2018

• KubeDirector: The easy way to run complex stateful applications on Kubernetes

  Wednesday, October 03, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Thomas Phelan (BlueData) KubeDirector is an open source project designed to make it easy to run complex stateful scale-out application clusters on Kubernetes. KubeDirector is built using the custom resource definition (CRD) framework and …

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• Building a Network Bootable Server Farm for Kubernetes with LTSP

  Tuesday, October 02, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Andrei Kvapil (WEDOS) In this post, I'm going to introduce you to a cool technology for Kubernetes, LTSP. It is useful for large baremetal Kubernetes deployments. You don't need to think about installing an OS and binaries on each node …

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• Health checking gRPC servers on Kubernetes

  Monday, October 01, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Ahmet Alp Balkan (Google) Update (December 2021): Kubernetes now has built-in gRPC health probes starting in v1.23. To learn more, see Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes. This article was originally written about an external …

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• Kubernetes 1.12: Kubelet TLS Bootstrap and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Move to General Availability

  Thursday, September 27, 2018 in Blog

  Author: The 1.12 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.12, our third release of 2018! Today’s release continues to focus on internal improvements and graduating features to stable in Kubernetes. This newest version …

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• Hands On With Linkerd 2.0

  Tuesday, September 18, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Thomas Rampelberg (Buoyant) Linkerd 2.0 was recently announced as generally available (GA), signaling its readiness for production use. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to get Linkerd 2.0 up and running on your Kubernetes cluster …

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• 2018 Steering Committee Election Cycle Kicks Off

  Thursday, September 06, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Paris Pittman (Google), Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) Having a clear, definable governance model is crucial for the health of open source projects. For one of the highest velocity projects in the open source world, governance …

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• The Machines Can Do the Work, a Story of Kubernetes Testing, CI, and Automating the Contributor Experience

  Wednesday, August 29, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Aaron Crickenberger (Google) and Benjamin Elder (Google) “Large projects have a lot of less exciting, yet, hard work. We value time spent automating repetitive work more highly than toil. Where that work cannot be automated, it is our culture …

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• Introducing Kubebuilder: an SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs

  Friday, August 10, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Phillip Wittrock (Google), Sunil Arora (Google) How can we enable applications such as MySQL, Spark and Cassandra to manage themselves just like Kubernetes Deployments and Pods do? How do we configure these applications as their own first …

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• Out of the Clouds onto the Ground: How to Make Kubernetes Production Grade Anywhere

  Friday, August 03, 2018 in Blog

  Authors: Steven Wong (VMware), Michael Gasch (VMware) This blog offers some guidelines for running a production grade Kubernetes cluster in an environment like an on-premise data center or edge location. What does it mean to be “production grade”? …

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• Dynamically Expand Volume with CSI and Kubernetes

  Thursday, August 02, 2018 in Blog

  Author: Orain Xiong (Co-Founder, WoquTech) There is a very powerful storage subsystem within Kubernetes itself, covering a fairly broad spectrum of use cases. Whereas, when planning to build a product-grade relational database platform with …

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