Kubernetes Blog

Posts in 2019

• Kubernetes 1.14: Production-level support for Windows Nodes, Kubectl Updates, Persistent Local Volumes GA

  By Kubernetes v1.14 Release Team | Monday, March 25, 2019 in Blog

  We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.14, our first release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.14 consists of 31 enhancements: 10 moving to stable, 12 in beta, and 7 net new. The main themes of this release are extensibility and supporting more …

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• Kubernetes End-to-end Testing for Everyone

  By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Friday, March 22, 2019 in Blog

  More and more components that used to be part of Kubernetes are now being developed outside of Kubernetes. For example, storage drivers used to be compiled into Kubernetes binaries, then were moved into stand-alone FlexVolume binaries on the host, …

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• A Guide to Kubernetes Admission Controllers

  By Malte Isberner (StackRox) | Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Blog

  Kubernetes has greatly improved the speed and manageability of backend clusters in production today. Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard in container orchestrators thanks to its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Kubernetes also …

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• A Look Back and What's in Store for Kubernetes Contributor Summits

  By Paris Pittman (Google), Jonas Rosland (VMware) | Wednesday, March 20, 2019 in Blog

  Seattle Contributor Summit As our contributing community grows in great numbers, with more than 16,000 contributors this year across 150+ GitHub repositories, it’s important to provide face to face connections for our large distributed teams to have …

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• KubeEdge, a Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework

  By Sanil Kumar D (Huawei), Jun Du(Huawei) | Tuesday, March 19, 2019 in Blog

  KubeEdge becomes the first Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Platform with both Edge and Cloud components open sourced! Open source edge computing is going through its most dynamic phase of development in the industry. So many open source platforms, …

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• Kubernetes Setup Using Ansible and Vagrant

  By Naresh L J (Infosys) | Friday, March 15, 2019 in Blog

  Objective This blog post describes the steps required to setup a multi node Kubernetes cluster for development purposes. This setup provides a production-like cluster that can be setup on your local machine. Why do we require multi node cluster …

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• Raw Block Volume support to Beta

  By Ben Swartzlander (NetApp), Saad Ali (Google) | Thursday, March 07, 2019 in Blog

  Kubernetes v1.13 moves raw block volume support to beta. This feature allows persistent volumes to be exposed inside containers as a block device instead of as a mounted file system. What are block devices? Block devices enable random access to data …

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• Automate Operations on your Cluster with OperatorHub.io

  By Diane Mueller (Red Hat) | Thursday, February 28, 2019 in Blog

  One of the important challenges facing developers and Kubernetes administrators has been a lack of ability to quickly find common services that are operationally ready for Kubernetes. Typically, the presence of an Operator for a specific service - a …

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• Building a Kubernetes Edge (Ingress) Control Plane for Envoy v2

  By Daniel Bryant (Datawire), Flynn (Datawire), Richard Li (Datawire) | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 in Blog

  Kubernetes has become the de facto runtime for container-based microservice applications, but this orchestration framework alone does not provide all of the infrastructure necessary for running a distributed system. Microservices typically …

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• Runc and CVE-2019-5736

  By Kubernetes Product Security Committee | Monday, February 11, 2019 in Blog

  This morning a container escape vulnerability in runc was announced. We wanted to provide some guidance to Kubernetes users to ensure everyone is safe and secure. What is runc? Very briefly, runc is the low-level tool which does the heavy lifting of …

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