Kubernetes
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Is Your Cluster Ready for v1.24?
Way back in December of 2020, Kubernetes announced the deprecation of Dockershim. In Kubernetes, dockershim is a software shim that allows you to use the entire Docker engine as your container runtime within Kubernetes. In the upcoming…
Meet Our Contributors - APAC (Aus-NZ region)
Authors & Interviewers: Anubhav Vardhan, Atharva Shinde, Avinesh Tripathi, Brad McCoy, Debabrata Panigrahi, Jayesh Srivastava, Kunal Verma, Pranshu Srivastava, Priyanka Saggu, Purneswar Prasad, Vedant Kakde Good day, everyone 👋 Welcome…
Updated: Dockershim Removal FAQ
This supersedes the original Dockershim Deprecation FAQ article, published in late 2020. The article includes updates from the v1.24 release of Kubernetes. This document goes over some frequently asked questions regarding the removal of…
SIG Node CI Subproject Celebrates Two Years of Test Improvements
Ensuring the reliability of SIG Node upstream code is a continuous effort that takes a lot of behind-the-scenes effort from many contributors. There are frequent releases of Kubernetes, base operating systems, container runtimes, and test…
Spotlight on SIG Multicluster
Introduction SIG Multicluster is the SIG focused on how Kubernetes concepts are expanded and used beyond the cluster boundary. Historically, Kubernetes resources only interacted within that boundary - KRU or Kubernetes Resource Universe…
Securing Admission Controllers
Admission control is a key part of Kubernetes security, alongside authentication and authorization. Webhook admission controllers are extensively used to help improve the security of Kubernetes clusters in a variety of ways including…
Meet Our Contributors - APAC (India region)
Authors & Interviewers: Anubhav Vardhan, Atharva Shinde, Avinesh Tripathi, Debabrata Panigrahi, Kunal Verma, Pranshu Srivastava, Pritish Samal, Purneswar Prasad, Vedant Kakde Editor: Priyanka Saggu Good day, everyone 👋 Welcome to the…
Kubernetes is Moving on From Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps
Kubernetes is removing dockershim in the upcoming v1.24 release. We're excited to reaffirm our community values by supporting open source container runtimes, enabling a smaller kubelet, and increasing engineering velocity for teams using…
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
When you own two data centers, thousands of physical servers, virtual machines and hosting for hundreds of thousands sites, Kubernetes can actually simplify the management of all these things. As practice has shown, by using Kubernetes,…
Using Admission Controllers to Detect Container Drift at Runtime
At Box, we use Kubernetes (K8s) to manage hundreds of micro-services that enable Box to stream data at a petabyte scale. When it comes to the deployment process, we run kube-applier as part of the GitOps workflows with declarative…
What's new in Security Profiles Operator v0.4.0
The Security Profiles Operator (SPO) is an out-of-tree Kubernetes enhancement to make the management of seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor profiles easier and more convenient. We're happy to announce that we recently released v0.4.0 of the…
Kubernetes 1.23: StatefulSet PVC Auto-Deletion (alpha)
Kubernetes v1.23 introduced a new, alpha-level policy for StatefulSets that controls the lifetime of PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs) generated from the StatefulSet spec template for cases when they should be deleted automatically when the…
Kubernetes 1.23: Prevent PersistentVolume leaks when deleting out of order
PersistentVolume (or PVs for short) are associated with Reclaim Policy. The Reclaim Policy is used to determine the actions that need to be taken by the storage backend on deletion of the PV. Where the reclaim policy is Delete, the…
Kubernetes 1.23: Kubernetes In-Tree to CSI Volume Migration Status Update
The Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure has already been beta since v1.17. CSI migration was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.14. Since then, SIG Storage and other Kubernetes…
Kubernetes 1.23: Pod Security Graduates to Beta
With the release of Kubernetes v1.23, Pod Security admission has now entered beta. Pod Security is a built-in admission controller that evaluates pod specifications against a predefined set of Pod Security Standards and determines whether…
Kubernetes 1.23: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 Networking Reaches GA
"When will Kubernetes have IPv6?" This question has been asked with increasing frequency ever since alpha support for IPv6 was first added in k8s v1.9. While Kubernetes has supported IPv6-only clusters since v1.18, migration from IPv4 to…
Kubernetes 1.23: The Next Frontier
We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.23, the last release of 2021! This release consists of 47 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 17 enhancements are moving to beta, and 19 enhancements are entering…
Contribution, containers and cricket: the Kubernetes 1.22 release interview
The Kubernetes release train rolls on, and we look ahead to the release of 1.23 next week. As is our tradition, I'm pleased to bring you a look back at the process that brought us the previous version. The release team for 1.22 was led by…
Dockershim removal is coming. Are you ready?
Reviewers: Davanum Srinivas, Elana Hashman, Noah Kantrowitz, Rey Lejano. This poll closed on January 7, 2022. Last year we announced that Kubernetes' dockershim component (which provides a built-in integration for Docker Engine) is…
Non-root Containers And Devices
The user/group ID related security settings in Pod's securityContext trigger a problem when users want to deploy containers that use accelerator devices (via Kubernetes Device Plugins) on Linux. In this blog post I talk about the problem…
Announcing the 2021 Steering Committee Election Results
The 2021 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2021. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the…
Use KPNG to Write Specialized kube-proxiers
The post will show you how to create a specialized service kube-proxy style network proxier using Kubernetes Proxy NG kpng without interfering with the existing kube-proxy. The kpng project aims at renewing the the default Kubernetes…
Introducing ClusterClass and Managed Topologies in Cluster API
The Cluster API community is happy to announce the implementation of ClusterClass and Managed Topologies, a new feature that will greatly simplify how you can provision, upgrade, and operate multiple Kubernetes clusters in a declarative…
A Closer Look at NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
The open source tools listed in this article are to serve as examples only and are in no way a direct recommendation from the Kubernetes community or authors. Background USA's National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and…