Posts in 2016
Dynamic Provisioning and Storage Classes in Kubernetes
Friday, October 07, 2016 in Blog
Storage is a critical part of running containers, and Kubernetes offers some powerful primitives for managing it. Dynamic volume provisioning, a feature unique to Kubernetes, allows storage volumes to be created on-demand. Without dynamic …
How we improved Kubernetes Dashboard UI in 1.4 for your production needs
Monday, October 03, 2016 in Blog
With the release of Kubernetes 1.4 last week, Dashboard – the official web UI for Kubernetes – has a number of exciting updates and improvements of its own. The past three months have been busy ones for the Dashboard team, and we’re excited to share …
How we made Kubernetes insanely easy to install
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: Today’s post is by Luke Marsden, Head of Developer Experience, at Weaveworks, showing the Special Interest Group Cluster-Lifecycle’s recent work on kubeadm, a tool to make installing Kubernetes much simpler. Over at …
How Qbox Saved 50% per Month on AWS Bills Using Kubernetes and Supergiant
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by the team at Qbox, a hosted Elasticsearch provider sharing their experience with Kubernetes and how it helped save them fifty-percent off their cloud bill. A little over a year ago, we at Qbox faced an existential …
Kubernetes 1.4: Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
Monday, September 26, 2016 in Blog
Today we’re happy to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.4. Since the release to general availability just over 15 months ago, Kubernetes has continued to grow and achieve broad adoption across the industry. From brand new startups to large-scale …
High performance network policies in Kubernetes clusters
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: today’s post is by Juergen Brendel, Pritesh Kothari and Chris Marino co-founders of Pani Networks, the sponsor of the Romana project, the network policy software used for these benchmark tests. Network Policies Since the release of …
Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster using Helm
Friday, September 09, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm, a Kubernetes package manager. Crunchy Data supplies a set of open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL related …
Deploying to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with kit
Tuesday, September 06, 2016 in Blog
Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Chesley Brown, Full-Stack Engineer, at InVision, talking about how they build and open sourced kit to help them to continuously deploy updates to multiple clusters. Our Docker journey at InVision may sound …
Cloud Native Application Interfaces
Thursday, September 01, 2016 in Blog
Standard Interfaces (or, the Thirteenth Factor) --by Brian Grant and Craig Mcluckie, Google When you say we need ‘software standards’ in erudite company, you get some interesting looks. Most concede that software standards have been central to the …
Security Best Practices for Kubernetes Deployment
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 in Blog
Note: some of the recommendations in this post are no longer current. Current cluster hardening options are described in this documentation. Editor’s note: today’s post is by Amir Jerbi and Michael Cherny of Aqua Security, describing security best …