Posts in 2021
Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Celeste Horgan, Adolfo García Veytia, James Laverack, Jeremy Rickard On April 23, 2021, the Release Team merged a Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) changing the Kubernetes release cycle from four releases a year (once a quarter) to three …
Spotlight on SIG Usability
Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Blog
Author: Kunal Kushwaha, Civo Introduction Are you interested in learning about what SIG Usability does and how you can get involved? Well, you're at the right place. SIG Usability is all about making Kubernetes more accessible to new folks, and its …
Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old APIs they replace are deprecated, and eventually removed. See …
Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports
Monday, June 28, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Divya Mohan Given the growth and scale of the Kubernetes project, the existing reporting mechanisms were proving to be inadequate and challenging. Kubernetes is a large open source project. With over 100000 commits just to the main …
Writing a Controller for Pod Labels
Monday, June 21, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Arthur Busser (Padok) Operators are proving to be an excellent solution to running stateful distributed applications in Kubernetes. Open source tools like the Operator SDK provide ways to build reliable and maintainable operators, making it …
Using Finalizers to Control Deletion
Friday, May 14, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Aaron Alpar (Kasten) Deleting objects in Kubernetes can be challenging. You may think you’ve deleted something, only to find it still persists. While issuing a kubectl delete command and hoping for the best might work for day-to-day …
Kubernetes 1.21: Metrics Stability hits GA
Friday, April 23, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Han Kang (Google), Elana Hashman (Red Hat) Kubernetes 1.21 marks the graduation of the metrics stability framework and along with it, the first officially supported stable metrics. Not only do stable metrics come with supportability …
Evolving Kubernetes networking with the Gateway API
Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Mark Church (Google), Harry Bagdi (Kong), Daneyon Hanson (Red Hat), Nick Young (VMware), Manuel Zapf (Traefik Labs) The Ingress resource is one of the many Kubernetes success stories. It created a diverse ecosystem of Ingress controllers …
Graceful Node Shutdown Goes Beta
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in Blog
Authors: David Porter (Google), Mrunal Patel (Red Hat), and Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) Graceful node shutdown, beta in 1.21, enables kubelet to gracefully evict pods during a node shutdown. Kubernetes is a distributed system and as such we …
Defining Network Policy Conformance for Container Network Interface (CNI) providers
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Matt Fenwick (Synopsys), Jay Vyas (VMWare), Ricardo Katz, Amim Knabben (Loadsmart), Douglas Schilling Landgraf (Red Hat), Christopher Tomkins (Tigera) Special thanks to Tim Hockin and Bowie Du (Google), Dan Winship and Antonio Ojea (Red …