Posts in 2017
Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes
By Soam Vasani (Platform9 Systems) | Monday, January 30, 2017 in Blog
Fission is a Functions as a Service (FaaS) / Serverless function framework built on Kubernetes. Fission allows you to easily create HTTP services on Kubernetes from functions. It works at the source level and abstracts away container images (in most …
How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception
By Hector Fernandez (Giant Swarm) Puja Abbassi (Giant Swarm) | Friday, January 20, 2017 in Blog
Giant Swarm’s container infrastructure started out with the goal to be an easy way for developers to deploy containerized microservices. Our first generation was extensively using fleet as a base layer for our infrastructure components as well as for …
Scaling Kubernetes deployments with Policy-Based Networking
By Harmeet Sahni (Nuage Networks) | Thursday, January 19, 2017 in Blog
Although it’s just been eighteen-months since Kubernetes 1.0 was released, we’ve seen Kubernetes emerge as the leading container orchestration platform for deploying distributed applications. One of the biggest reasons for this is the vibrant open …
A Stronger Foundation for Creating and Managing Kubernetes Clusters
By Lucas Käldström (independent) | Thursday, January 12, 2017 in Blog
Last time you heard from us was in September, when we announced kubeadm. The work on making kubeadm a first-class citizen in the Kubernetes ecosystem has continued and evolved. Some of us also met before KubeCon and had a very productive meeting …
Kubernetes UX Survey Infographic
By Dan Romlein (UX Designer) | Monday, January 09, 2017 in Blog
The following infographic summarizes the findings of a survey that the team behind Dashboard, the official web UI for Kubernetes, sent during KubeCon in November 2016. Following the KubeCon launch of the survey, it was promoted on Twitter and various …
Posts in 2016
Kubernetes supports OpenAPI
By Mehdy Bohlool (Google) | Friday, December 23, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 OpenAPI allows API providers to define their operations and models, and enables developers to automate their tools and generate their favorite …
Cluster Federation in Kubernetes 1.5
By Lukasz Guminski (Container Solutions), Allan Naim (Google) | Thursday, December 22, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 In the latest Kubernetes 1.5 release, you’ll notice that support for Cluster Federation is maturing. That functionality was introduced in Kubernetes …
Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes
By Michael Michael (Apprenda) | Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 Extending on the theme of giving users choice, Kubernetes 1.5 release includes the support for Windows Servers. WIth more than 80% of enterprise apps …
StatefulSet: Run and Scale Stateful Applications Easily in Kubernetes
By Kenneth Owens (Google), Eric Tune (Google) | Tuesday, December 20, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 In the latest release, Kubernetes 1.5, we’ve moved the feature formerly known as PetSet into beta as StatefulSet. There were no major changes to the API …
Introducing Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes
By Yu-Ju Hong (Google) | Monday, December 19, 2016 in Blog
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 At the lowest layers of a Kubernetes node is the software that, among other things, starts and stops containers. We call this the “Container Runtime”. …