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Posts in 2018

• gRPC Load Balancing on Kubernetes without Tears

  By William Morgan (Buoyant) | Wednesday, November 07, 2018 in Blog

  Many new gRPC users are surprised to find that Kubernetes's default load balancing often doesn't work out of the box with gRPC. For example, here's what happens when you take a simple gRPC Node.js microservices app and deploy it on Kubernetes: While …

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• Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 2

  By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Friday, October 26, 2018 in Blog

  Hello and welcome back to the second and final part about tips for KubeCon first-time speakers. If you missed the last post, please give it a read here. The Day before the Show Tip #13 - Get enough sleep. I don't know about you, but when I don't get …

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• Tips for Your First Kubecon Presentation - Part 1

  By Michael Gasch (VMware) | Thursday, October 18, 2018 in Blog

  First of all, let me congratulate you to this outstanding achievement. Speaking at KubeCon, especially if it's your first time, is a tremendous honor and experience. Well done! Congrats to everyone who got Kubecon talks accepted! 👏👏👏 To everyone who …

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• Kubernetes 2018 North American Contributor Summit

  By Bob Killen (University of Michigan), Sahdev Zala (IBM), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 in Blog

  The 2018 North American Kubernetes Contributor Summit to be hosted right before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle is shaping up to be the largest yet. It is an event that brings together new and current contributors alike to connect and share …

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• 2018 Steering Committee Election Results

  By Jorge Castro (Heptio), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF), Paris Pittman (Google) | Monday, October 15, 2018 in Blog

  Results The Kubernetes Steering Committee Election is now complete and the following candidates came ahead to secure two year terms that start immediately: Aaron Crickenberger, Google, @spiffxp Davanum Srinivas, Huawei, @dims Tim St. Clair, Heptio, …

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• Topology-Aware Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes

  By Michelle Au (Google) | Thursday, October 11, 2018 in Blog

  The multi-zone cluster experience with persistent volumes is improving in Kubernetes 1.12 with the topology-aware dynamic provisioning beta feature. This feature allows Kubernetes to make intelligent decisions when dynamically provisioning volumes by …

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• Kubernetes v1.12: Introducing RuntimeClass

  By Tim Allclair (Google) | Wednesday, October 10, 2018 in Blog

  Kubernetes originally launched with support for Docker containers running native applications on a Linux host. Starting with rkt in Kubernetes 1.3 more runtimes were coming, which lead to the development of the Container Runtime Interface (CRI). …

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• Introducing Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes

  By Jing Xu (Google), Xing Yang (Huawei), Saad Ali (Google) | Tuesday, October 09, 2018 in Blog

  Kubernetes v1.12 introduces alpha support for volume snapshotting. This feature allows creating/deleting volume snapshots, and the ability to create new volumes from a snapshot natively using the Kubernetes API. What is a Snapshot? Many storage …

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• Support for Azure VMSS, Cluster-Autoscaler and User Assigned Identity

  By Krishnakumar R (KK) (Microsoft), Pengfei Ni (Microsoft) | Monday, October 08, 2018 in Blog

  Introduction With Kubernetes v1.12, Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) and cluster-autoscaler have reached their General Availability (GA) and User Assigned Identity is available as a preview feature. Azure VMSS allow you to create and manage …

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• Introducing the Non-Code Contributor’s Guide

  By Noah Abrahams (InfoSiftr), Jonas Rosland (VMware), Ihor Dvoretskyi (CNCF) | Thursday, October 04, 2018 in Blog

  It was May 2018 in Copenhagen, and the Kubernetes community was enjoying the contributor summit at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, complete with the first run of the New Contributor Workshop. As a time of tremendous collaboration between contributors, the …

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