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Cloud native security for your clusters
Over the last few years a small, security focused community has been working diligently to deepen our understanding of security, given the evolving cloud native infrastructure and corresponding iterative deployment practices. To enable…
Announcing the 2020 Steering Committee Election Results
The 2020 Steering Committee Election is now complete. In 2019, the committee arrived at its final allocation of 7 seats, 3 of which were up for election in 2020. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are…
Contributing to the Development Guide
When most people think of contributing to an open source project, I suspect they probably think of contributing code changes, new features, and bug fixes. As a software engineer and a long-time open source user and contributor, that's…
GSoC 2020 - Building operators for cluster addons
Introduction Google Summer of Code is a global program that is geared towards introducing students to open source. Students are matched with open-source organizations to work with them for three months during the summer. My name is…
Warning: Helpful Warnings Ahead
As Kubernetes maintainers, we're always looking for ways to improve usability while preserving compatibility. As we develop features, triage bugs, and answer support questions, we accumulate information that would be helpful for Kubernetes…
Increasing the Kubernetes Support Window to One Year
Starting with Kubernetes 1.19, the support window for Kubernetes versions will increase from 9 months to one year. The longer support window is intended to allow organizations to perform major upgrades at a time of the year that works the…
Moving Forward From Beta
In Kubernetes, features follow a defined lifecycle. First, as the twinkle of an eye in an interested developer. Maybe, then, sketched in online discussions, drawn on the online equivalent of a cafe napkin. This rough work typically becomes…
Physics, politics and Pull Requests: the Kubernetes 1.18 release interview
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't delay the release of Kubernetes 1.18, but unfortunately a small bug could — thankfully only by a day. This was the last cat that needed to be herded by 1.18 release lead Jorge Alarcón before the…
Music and math: the Kubernetes 1.17 release interview
Every time the Kubernetes release train stops at the station, we like to ask the release lead to take a moment to reflect on their experience. That takes the form of an interview on the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google that I co-host…
SIG-Windows Spotlight
This post tells the story of how Kubernetes contributors work together to provide a container orchestrator that works for both Linux and Windows. Most people who are familiar with Kubernetes are probably used to associating it with Linux.…
Working with Terraform and Kubernetes
Maintaining Kubestack, an open-source Terraform GitOps Framework for Kubernetes, I unsurprisingly spend a lot of time working with Terraform and Kubernetes. Kubestack provisions managed Kubernetes services like AKS, EKS and GKE using…
A Better Docs UX With Docsy
Editor's note: Zach is one of the chairs for the Kubernetes documentation special interest group (SIG Docs). I'm pleased to announce that the Kubernetes website now features the Docsy Hugo theme. The Docsy theme improves the site's…
K8s KPIs with Kuberhealthy
Building Onward from Kuberhealthy v2.0.0 Last November at KubeCon San Diego 2019, we announced the release of Kuberhealthy 2.0.0 - transforming Kuberhealthy into a Kubernetes operator for synthetic monitoring. This new ability granted…
An Introduction to the K8s-Infrastructure Working Group
Author: Kiran "Rin" Oliver Storyteller, Kubernetes Upstream Marketing Team An Introduction to the K8s-Infrastructure Working Group Welcome to part one of a new series introducing the K8s-Infrastructure working group! When Kubernetes was…
WSL+Docker: Kubernetes on the Windows Desktop
Introduction New to Windows 10 and WSL2, or new to Docker and Kubernetes? Welcome to this blog post where we will install from scratch Kubernetes in Docker KinD and Minikube. Why Kubernetes on Windows? For the last few years, Kubernetes…
Introducing PodTopologySpread
Managing Pods distribution across a cluster is hard. The well-known Kubernetes features for Pod affinity and anti-affinity, allow some control of Pod placement in different topologies. However, these features only resolve part of Pods…
Cluster API v1alpha3 Delivers New Features and an Improved User Experience
The Cluster API is a Kubernetes project to bring declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster creation, configuration, and management. It provides optional, additive functionality on top of core Kubernetes to manage the lifecycle of a…
How Kubernetes contributors are building a better communication process
"Perhaps we just need to use a different word. We may need to use community development or project advocacy as a word in the open source realm as opposed to marketing, and perhaps then people will realize that they need to do it." ~ Nithya…
API Priority and Fairness Alpha
This blog describes “API Priority And Fairness”, a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.18. API Priority And Fairness permits cluster administrators to divide the concurrency of the control plane into different weighted priority levels. Every…
Kubernetes 1.18 Feature Server-side Apply Beta 2
What is Server-side Apply? Server-side Apply is an important effort to migrate “kubectl apply” to the apiserver. It was started in 2018 by the Apply working group. The use of kubectl to declaratively apply resources has exposed the…
Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!
This blog post describes the TopologyManager, a beta feature of Kubernetes in release 1.18. The TopologyManager feature enables NUMA alignment of CPUs and peripheral devices (such as SR-IOV VFs and GPUs), allowing your workload to run in…
Join SIG Scalability and Learn Kubernetes the Hard Way
Contributing to SIG Scalability is a great way to learn Kubernetes in all its depth and breadth, and the team would love to have you join as a contributor. I took a look at the value of learning the hard way and interviewed the current SIG…
Bring your ideas to the world with kubectl plugins
kubectl is the most critical tool to interact with Kubernetes and has to address multiple user personas, each with their own needs and opinions. One way to make kubectl do what you need is to build new functionality into kubectl.…
KubeInvaders - Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes
Some months ago, I released my latest project called KubeInvaders. The first time I shared it with the community was during an Openshift Commons Briefing session. Kubenvaders is a Gamified Chaos Engineering tool for Kubernetes and…