Kubernetes Blog

Posts in 2016

• Introducing Kubernetes Service Partners program and a redesigned Partners page

  Monday, October 31, 2016 in Blog

  Kubernetes has become a leading container orchestration system by being a powerful and flexible way to run distributed systems at scale. Through our very active open source community, equating to hundreds of person years of work, Kubernetes achieved …

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• How We Architected and Run Kubernetes on OpenStack at Scale at Yahoo! JAPAN

  Monday, October 24, 2016 in Blog

  Editor’s note: today’s post is by the Infrastructure Engineering team at Yahoo! JAPAN, talking about how they run OpenStack on Kubernetes. This post has been translated and edited for context with permission -- originally published on the Yahoo! …

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• Building Globally Distributed Services using Kubernetes Cluster Federation

  Friday, October 14, 2016 in Blog

  Editor's note: Today’s post is by Allan Naim, Product Manager, and Quinton Hoole, Staff Engineer at Google, showing how to deploy a multi-homed service behind a global load balancer and have requests sent to the closest cluster. In Kubernetes 1.3, we …

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• Helm Charts: making it simple to package and deploy common applications on Kubernetes

  Monday, October 10, 2016 in Blog

  There are thousands of people and companies packaging their applications for deployment on Kubernetes. This usually involves crafting a few different Kubernetes resource definitions that configure the application runtime, as well as defining the …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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