Posts in 2020
Introducing PodTopologySpread
Tuesday, May 05, 2020 in Blog
Author: Wei Huang (IBM), Aldo Culquicondor (Google) 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, …
Two-phased Canary Rollout with Open Source Gloo
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in Blog
Author: Rick Ducott | GitHub | Twitter Every day, my colleagues and I are talking to platform owners, architects, and engineers who are using Gloo as an API gateway to expose their applications to end users. These applications may span legacy …
How Kubernetes contributors are building a better communication process
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Paris Pittman "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 …
Cluster API v1alpha3 Delivers New Features and an Improved User Experience
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Blog
Author: Daniel Lipovetsky (D2IQ) 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 …
API Priority and Fairness Alpha
Monday, April 06, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Min Kim (Ant Financial), Mike Spreitzer (IBM), Daniel Smith (Google) 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 …
Introducing Windows CSI support alpha for Kubernetes
Friday, April 03, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Authors: Deep Debroy [Docker], Jing Xu [Google], Krishnakumar R (KK) [Microsoft] The alpha version of CSI Proxy for Windows is being released with Kubernetes 1.18. CSI proxy enables CSI Drivers on Windows by allowing containers in Windows to …
Improvements to the Ingress API in Kubernetes 1.18
Thursday, April 02, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Rob Scott (Google), Christopher M Luciano (IBM) The Ingress API in Kubernetes has enabled a large number of controllers to provide simple and powerful ways to manage inbound network traffic to Kubernetes workloads. In Kubernetes 1.18, we've …
Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!
Wednesday, April 01, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Kevin Klues (NVIDIA), Victor Pickard (Red Hat), Conor Nolan (Intel) 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 …
Kubernetes 1.18 Feature Server-side Apply Beta 2
Wednesday, April 01, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Antoine Pelisse (Google) 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 …
Kubernetes 1.18: Fit & Finish
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.18 Release Team We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 …