Posts in 2021
Local Storage: Storage Capacity Tracking, Distributed Provisioning and Generic Ephemeral Volumes hit Beta
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Patrick Ohly (Intel) The "generic ephemeral volumes" and "storage capacity tracking" features in Kubernetes are getting promoted to beta in Kubernetes 1.21. Together with the distributed provisioning support in the CSI …
kube-state-metrics goes v2.0
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Lili Cosic (Red Hat), Frederic Branczyk (Polar Signals), Manuel Rüger (Sony Interactive Entertainment), Tariq Ibrahim (Salesforce) What? kube-state-metrics, a project under the Kubernetes organization, generates Prometheus format metrics …
Introducing Suspended Jobs
Monday, April 12, 2021 in Blog
Author: Adhityaa Chandrasekar (Google) Jobs are a crucial part of Kubernetes' API. While other kinds of workloads such as Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets solve use-cases that require Pods to run forever, Jobs are useful when …
Kubernetes 1.21: CronJob Reaches GA
Friday, April 09, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Alay Patel (Red Hat), and Maciej Szulik (Red Hat) In Kubernetes v1.21, the CronJob resource reached general availability (GA). We've also substantially improved the performance of CronJobs since Kubernetes v1.19, by implementing a new …
Kubernetes 1.21: Power to the Community
Thursday, April 08, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.21, our first release of 2021! This release consists of 51 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 16 enhancements are moving to beta, 20 …
PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation: Past, Present, and Future
Tuesday, April 06, 2021 in Blog
Author: Tabitha Sable (Kubernetes SIG Security) PodSecurityPolicy (PSP) is being deprecated in Kubernetes 1.21, to be released later this week. This starts the countdown to its removal, but doesn’t change anything else. PodSecurityPolicy will …
The Evolution of Kubernetes Dashboard
Tuesday, March 09, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Marcin Maciaszczyk, Kubermatic & Sebastian Florek, Kubermatic In October 2020, the Kubernetes Dashboard officially turned five. As main project maintainers, we can barely believe that so much time has passed since our very first commits …
Posts in 2020
A Custom Kubernetes Scheduler to Orchestrate Highly Available Applications
Monday, December 21, 2020 in Blog
Author: Chris Seto (Cockroach Labs) As long as you're willing to follow the rules, deploying on Kubernetes and air travel can be quite pleasant. More often than not, things will "just work". However, if one is interested in travelling with …
Kubernetes 1.20: Pod Impersonation and Short-lived Volumes in CSI Drivers
Friday, December 18, 2020 in Blog
Author: Shihang Zhang (Google) Typically when a CSI driver mounts credentials such as secrets and certificates, it has to authenticate against storage providers to access the credentials. However, the access to those credentials are controlled on the …
Third Party Device Metrics Reaches GA
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Renaud Gaubert (NVIDIA), David Ashpole (Google), and Pramod Ramarao (NVIDIA) With Kubernetes 1.20, infrastructure teams who manage large scale Kubernetes clusters, are seeing the graduation of two exciting and long awaited features: The Pod …