Posts in 2023
A Quick Recap of 2023 China Kubernetes Contributor Summit
Friday, October 20, 2023 in Blog
Author: Paco Xu and Michael Yao (DaoCloud) On September 26, 2023, the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023, nearly 50 contributors gathered in Shanghai for the Kubernetes Contributor Summit. All participants in the …
Bootstrap an Air Gapped Cluster With Kubeadm
Thursday, October 12, 2023 in Blog
Author: Rob Mengert (Defense Unicorns) Ever wonder how software gets deployed onto a system that is deliberately disconnected from the Internet and other networks? These systems are typically disconnected due to their sensitive nature. Sensitive as …
CRI-O is moving towards pkgs.k8s.io
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Blog
Author: Sascha Grunert The Kubernetes community recently announced that their legacy package repositories are frozen, and now they moved to introduced community-owned package repositories powered by the OpenBuildService (OBS). CRI-O has a long …
Spotlight on SIG Architecture: Conformance
Thursday, October 05, 2023 in Blog
Author: Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) This is the first interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that will cover the different subprojects. We start with the SIG Architecture: Conformance subproject In this SIG Architecture spotlight, we …
Announcing the 2023 Steering Committee Election Results
Monday, October 02, 2023 in Blog
Author: Kaslin Fields The 2023 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2023. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are …
Happy 7th Birthday kubeadm!
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 in Blog
Author: Fabrizio Pandini (VMware) What a journey so far! Starting from the initial blog post “How we made Kubernetes insanely easy to install” in September 2016, followed by an exciting growth that lead to general availability / “Production-Ready …
kubeadm: Use etcd Learner to Join a Control Plane Node Safely
Monday, September 25, 2023 in Blog
Author: Paco Xu (DaoCloud) The kubeadm tool now supports etcd learner mode, which allows you to enhance the resilience and stability of your Kubernetes clusters by leveraging the learner mode feature introduced in etcd version 3.4. This guide will …
User Namespaces: Now Supports Running Stateful Pods in Alpha!
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Microsoft), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat), Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user namespaces for only stateless pods. Kubernetes 1.28 lifted that restriction, after some design changes …
Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools: Telepresence, Gefyra, and mirrord
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 in Blog
Author: Eyal Bukchin (MetalBear) The Kubernetes development cycle is an evolving landscape with a myriad of tools seeking to streamline the process. Each tool has its unique approach, and the choice often comes down to individual project …
Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Bob Killen (Google), Chris Short (AWS), Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) On August 15, 2023, the Kubernetes project announced the general availability of the community-owned package …