Kubernetes Blog

Posts in 2019

• Kubernetes Documentation Survey

  By Aimee Ukasick, and Kubernetes SIG Docs | Tuesday, October 29, 2019 in Blog

  In September, SIG Docs conducted its first survey about the Kubernetes documentation. We'd like to thank the CNCF's Kim McMahon for helping us create the survey and access the results. Key takeaways Respondents would like more example code, more …

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• Contributor Summit San Diego Schedule Announced!

  By Josh Berkus (Red Hat), Paris Pittman (Google), Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Thursday, October 10, 2019 in Blog

  There are many great sessions planned for the Contributor Summit, spread across five rooms of current contributor content in addition to the new contributor workshops. Since this is an upstream contributor summit and we don't often meet, being a …

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• 2019 Steering Committee Election Results

  By Bob Killen (University of Michigan), Jorge Castro (VMware), Brian Grant (Google), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Thursday, October 03, 2019 in Blog

  The 2019 Steering Committee Election is a landmark milestone for the Kubernetes project. The initial bootstrap committee is graduating to emeritus and the committee has now shrunk to its final allocation of seven seats. All members of the Steering …

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• Contributor Summit San Diego Registration Open!

  By Paris Pittman (Google), Jeffrey Sica (Red Hat), Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Tuesday, September 24, 2019 in Blog

  Contributor Summit San Diego 2019 Event Page In record time, we’ve hit capacity for the new contributor workshop session of the event! Sunday, November 17 Evening Contributor Celebration: QuartYard† Address: 1301 Market Street, San Diego, CA 92101 …

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• Kubernetes 1.16: Custom Resources, Overhauled Metrics, and Volume Extensions

  By Kubernetes 1.16 Release Team | Wednesday, September 18, 2019 in Blog

  We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. Major Themes Custom resources …

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• Announcing etcd 3.4

  By Gyuho Lee (Amazon Web Services), Jingyi Hu (Google) | Friday, August 30, 2019 in Blog

  etcd 3.4 focuses on stability, performance and ease of operation, with features like pre-vote and non-voting member and improvements to storage backend and client balancer. Please see CHANGELOG for full lists of changes. Better Storage Backend etcd …

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• OPA Gatekeeper: Policy and Governance for Kubernetes

  By Rita Zhang (Microsoft), Max Smythe (Google), Craig Hooper (Commonwealth Bank AU), Tim Hinrichs (Styra), Lachie Evenson (Microsoft), Torin Sandall (Styra) | Tuesday, August 06, 2019 in Blog

  The Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper project can be leveraged to help enforce policies and strengthen governance in your Kubernetes environment. In this post, we will walk through the goals, history, and current state of the project. The following …

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• Get started with Kubernetes (using Python)

  By Jason Haley (independent consultant) | Tuesday, July 23, 2019 in Blog

  So, you know you want to run your application in Kubernetes but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re getting started but still don’t know what you don’t know. In this blog you’ll walk through how to containerize an application and get it …

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• Deprecated APIs Removed In 1.16: Here’s What You Need To Know

  By Vallery Lancey (Lyft) | Thursday, July 18, 2019 in Blog

  As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old API is deprecated and eventually removed. The v1.16 release will stop serving the following deprecated API versions in favor of newer and more …

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• Recap of Kubernetes Contributor Summit Barcelona 2019

  By Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Tuesday, June 25, 2019 in Blog

  First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who made the Kubernetes Contributor Summit in Barcelona possible. We had an amazing team of volunteers tasked with planning and executing the event, and it was so much fun meeting and talking to all new and current …

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