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 …
Kubernetes 1.20: Granular Control of Volume Permission Changes
Monday, December 14, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Hemant Kumar, Red Hat & Christian Huffman, Red Hat Kubernetes 1.20 brings two important beta features, allowing Kubernetes admins and users alike to have more adequate control over how volume permissions are applied when a volume is …
Kubernetes 1.20: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to GA
Thursday, December 10, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Xing Yang, VMware & Xiangqian Yu, Google The Kubernetes Volume Snapshot feature is now GA in Kubernetes v1.20. It was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.12, followed by a second alpha with breaking changes in Kubernetes v1.13, and …
Kubernetes 1.20: The Raddest Release
Tuesday, December 08, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.20 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.20, our third and final release of 2020! This release consists of 42 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 15 enhancements are moving to …
GSoD 2020: Improving the API Reference Experience
Friday, December 04, 2020 in Blog
Author: Philippe Martin Editor's note: Better API references have been my goal since I joined Kubernetes docs three and a half years ago. Philippe has succeeded fantastically. More than a better API reference, though, Philippe embodied the best of …
Don't Panic: Kubernetes and Docker
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 in Blog
Update: Kubernetes support for Docker via dockershim is now removed. For more information, read the removal FAQ. You can also discuss the deprecation via a dedicated GitHub issue. Authors: Jorge Castro, Duffie Cooley, Kat Cosgrove, Justin Garrison, …
Dockershim Deprecation FAQ
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 in Blog
Update: There is a newer version of this article available. This document goes over some frequently asked questions regarding the Dockershim deprecation announced as a part of the Kubernetes v1.20 release. For more detail on the deprecation of Docker …
Cloud native security for your clusters
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 in Blog
Author: Pushkar Joglekar 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. …