Kubernetes Blog

Posts in 2016

• Thousand Instances of Cassandra using Kubernetes Pet Set

  By Chris Love (Datapipe) | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Blog

  Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Running The Greek Pet Monster Races For the Kubernetes 1.3 launch, we wanted to put the new Pet Set through its paces. By testing a thousand instances …

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• Stateful Applications in Containers!? Kubernetes 1.3 Says “Yes!”

  By Mark Balch (Diamanti) | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Blog

  Congratulations to the Kubernetes community on another value-packed release. A focus on stateful applications and federated clusters are two reasons why I’m so excited about 1.3. Kubernetes support for stateful apps such as Cassandra, Kafka, and …

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• Kubernetes in Rancher: the further evolution

  By Alena Prokharchyk (Rancher Labs) | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in Blog

  Kubernetes was the first external orchestration platform supported by Rancher, and since its release, it has become one of the most widely used among our users, and continues to grow rapidly in adoption. As Kubernetes has evolved, so has Rancher in …

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• Autoscaling in Kubernetes

  By Jerzy Szczepkowski (Google), Marcin Wielgus (Google) | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in Blog

  Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Customers using Kubernetes respond to end user requests quickly and ship software faster than ever before. But what happens when you build a service …

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• rktnetes brings rkt container engine to Kubernetes

  By Yifan Gu (CoreOS), Josh Wood (CoreOS) | Monday, July 11, 2016 in Blog

  Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 As part of Kubernetes 1.3, we’re happy to report that our work to bring interchangeable container engines to Kubernetes is bearing early fruit. What we …

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• Minikube: easily run Kubernetes locally

  By Dan Lorenc (Google) | Monday, July 11, 2016 in Blog

  Editor's note: This is the first post in a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 While Kubernetes is one of the best tools for managing containerized applications available today, and has been production-ready for over a year, …

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• Five Days of Kubernetes 1.3

  Monday, July 11, 2016 in Blog

  Last week we released Kubernetes 1.3, two years from the day when the first Kubernetes commit was pushed to GitHub. Now 30,000+ commits later from over 800 contributors, this 1.3 releases is jam packed with updates driven by feedback from users. …

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• Updates to Performance and Scalability in Kubernetes 1.3 -- 2,000 node 60,000 pod clusters

  By Wojciech Tyczynski (Google) | Thursday, July 07, 2016 in Blog

  We are proud to announce that with the release of version 1.3, Kubernetes now supports 2000-node clusters with even better end-to-end pod startup time. The latency of our API calls are within our one-second Service Level Objective (SLO) and most of …

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• Kubernetes 1.3: Bridging Cloud Native and Enterprise Workloads

  By Aparna Sinha (Google) | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 in Blog

  Nearly two years ago, when we officially kicked off the Kubernetes project, we wanted to simplify distributed systems management and provide the core technology required to everyone. The community’s response to this effort has blown us away. Today, …

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• Container Design Patterns

  By Brendan Burns (Google), David Oppenheimer (Google) | Tuesday, June 21, 2016 in Blog

  Kubernetes automates deployment, operations, and scaling of applications, but our goals in the Kubernetes project extend beyond system management -- we want Kubernetes to help developers, too. Kubernetes should make it easy for them to write the …

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