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Kubernetes on MIPS

Background MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), appeared in 1981 and developed by MIPS Technologies. Now MIPS architecture is widely…

Jan 15, 20205 min↗
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Announcing the Kubernetes bug bounty program

Authors: Maya Kaczorowski and Tim Allclair, Google, on behalf of the Kubernetes Product Security Committee Today, the Kubernetes Product Security Committee is launching a new bug bounty program, funded by the CNCF, to reward researchers…

Jan 14, 20204 min↗
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When you're in the release team, you're family: the Kubernetes 1.16 release interview

It is a pleasure to co-host the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google with Adam Glick. We get to talk to friends old and new from the community, as well as give people a download on the Cloud Native news every week. It was also a pleasure…

Dec 6, 201928 min↗
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Gardener Project Update

Last year, we introduced Gardener in the Kubernetes Community Meeting and in a post on the Kubernetes Blog. At SAP, we have been running Gardener for more than two years, and are successfully managing thousands of conformant clusters in…

Dec 2, 201913 min↗
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Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Microk8s

This article, the second in a series about local deployment options on Linux, and covers MicroK8s. Microk8s is the click-and-run solution for deploying a Kubernetes cluster locally, originally developed by Canonical, the publisher of…

Nov 26, 20194 min↗
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Grokkin' the Docs

Intro - Observations of a new SIG Docs contributor I began contributing to the SIG Docs community in August 2019. Sometimes I feel like I am a stranger in a strange land adapting to a new community: investigating community organization,…

Nov 5, 201913 min↗
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Kubernetes Documentation Survey

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…

Oct 29, 20194 min↗
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Contributor Summit San Diego Schedule Announced!

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,…

Oct 10, 20193 min↗
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2019 Steering Committee Election Results

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…

Oct 3, 20193 min↗
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Contributor Summit San Diego Registration Open!

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

Sep 24, 20193 min↗
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Get started with Kubernetes (using Python)

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…

Jul 23, 20196 min↗
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Recap of Kubernetes Contributor Summit Barcelona 2019

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…

Jun 25, 20193 min↗
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Automated High Availability in kubeadm v1.15: Batteries Included But Swappable

At the time of publication, Lucas Käldström was writing as SIG Cluster Lifecycle co-chair and as a subproject owner for kubeadm; Fabrizio Pandini was writing as a subproject owner for kubeadm. kubeadm is a tool that enables Kubernetes…

Jun 24, 20199 min↗
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Future of CRDs: Structural Schemas

CustomResourceDefinitions were introduced roughly two years ago as the primary way to extend the Kubernetes API with custom resources. From the beginning they stored arbitrary JSON data, with the exception that kind, apiVersion and…

Jun 20, 20197 min↗
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Kubernetes 1.15: Extensibility and Continuous Improvement

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are: Continuous…

Jun 19, 20199 min↗
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Join us at the Contributor Summit in Shanghai

![Picture of contributor panel at 2018 Shanghai contributor summit. Photo by Josh Berkus, licensed CC-BY 4.0](/images/blog/2019- 06-11-contributor-summit-shanghai/panel.png) For the second year, we will have a Contributor Summit event the…

Jun 12, 20193 min↗
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Kubernetes, Cloud Native, and the Future of Software

Kubernetes, Cloud Native, and the Future of Software Five years ago this June, Google Cloud announced a new application management technology called Kubernetes. It began with a simple open source commit, followed the next day by a…

May 17, 20195 min↗
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Expanding our Contributor Workshops

tl;dr - learn about the contributor community with us and land your first PR! We have spots available in Barcelona (registration closes on Wednesday May 15, so grab your spot!) and the upcoming Shanghai Summit. The Barcelona event is…

May 14, 20193 min↗
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Cat shirts and Groundhog Day: the Kubernetes 1.14 release interview

Last week we celebrated one year of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google. In this weekly show, my co-host Adam Glick and I focus on all the great things that are happening in the world of Kubernetes and Cloud Native. From the news of the…

May 13, 201929 min↗
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Join us for the 2019 KubeCon Diversity Lunch & Hack

Join us for the 2019 KubeCon Diversity Lunch & Hack: Building Tech Skills & An Inclusive Community - Sponsored by Google Cloud and VMware Registration for the Diversity Lunch opens today, May 2nd, 2019. To register, go to the main KubeCon…

May 2, 20194 min↗
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How You Can Help Localize Kubernetes Docs

Last year we optimized the Kubernetes website for hosting multilingual content. Contributors responded by adding multiple new localizations: as of April 2019, Kubernetes docs are partially available in nine different languages, with six…

Apr 26, 20193 min↗
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The Future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes

Approximately 9 months ago, the Kubernetes community agreed to form the Cloud Provider Special Interest Group (SIG). The justification was to have a single governing SIG to own and shape the integration points between Kubernetes and the…

Apr 17, 20194 min↗
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Pod Priority and Preemption in Kubernetes

Kubernetes is well-known for running scalable workloads. It scales your workloads based on their resource usage. When a workload is scaled up, more instances of the application get created. When the application is critical for your…

Apr 16, 20193 min↗
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Process ID Limiting for Stability Improvements in Kubernetes 1.14

Have you ever seen someone take more than their fair share of the cookies? The one person who reaches in and grabs a half dozen fresh baked chocolate chip chunk morsels and skitters off like Cookie Monster exclaiming “Om nom nom nom.” In…

Apr 15, 20193 min↗