Posts in 2016

  • 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    Note: some of the recommendations in this post are no longer current.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 …

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  • Scaling Stateful Applications using Kubernetes Pet Sets and FlexVolumes with Datera Elastic Data Fabric

    Monday, August 29, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Shailesh Mittal, Software Architect and Ashok Rajagopalan, Sr Director Product at Datera Inc, talking about Stateful Application provisioning with Kubernetes on Datera Elastic Data Fabric. Introduction …

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  • SIG Apps: build apps for and operate them in Kubernetes

    Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: This post is by the Kubernetes SIG-Apps team sharing how they focus on the developer and devops experience of running applications in Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an incredible manager for containerized applications. Because of this, …

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  • Kubernetes Namespaces: use cases and insights

    Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog

    “Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third” Who's on First? by Abbott and Costello Introduction Kubernetes is a system with several concepts. Many of these concepts get manifested as “objects” in the RESTful API (often called …

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  • Create a Couchbase cluster using Kubernetes

    Monday, August 15, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Arun Gupta, Vice President Developer Relations at Couchbase, showing how to setup a Couchbase cluster with Kubernetes. Couchbase Server is an open source, distributed NoSQL document-oriented database. It …

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  • Challenges of a Remotely Managed, On-Premises, Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster

    Tuesday, August 02, 2016 in Blog

    Today's post is written by Bich Le, chief architect at Platform9, describing how their engineering team overcame challenges in remotely managing bare-metal Kubernetes clusters. Introduction The recently announced Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is …

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  • Why OpenStack's embrace of Kubernetes is great for both communities

    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Blog

    Today, Mirantis, the leading contributor to OpenStack, announced that it will re-write its private cloud platform to use Kubernetes as its underlying orchestration engine. We think this is a great step forward for both the OpenStack and Kubernetes …

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  • The Bet on Kubernetes, a Red Hat Perspective

    Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is from a Kubernetes contributor Clayton Coleman, Architect on OpenShift at Red Hat, sharing their adoption of the project from its beginnings. Two years ago, Red Hat made a big bet on Kubernetes. We bet on a simple …

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  • Happy Birthday Kubernetes. Oh, the places you’ll go!

    Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note, Today’s guest post is from an independent Kubernetes contributor, Justin Santa Barbara, sharing his reflection on growth of the project from inception to its future. Dear K8s, It’s hard to believe you’re only one - you’ve grown up so …

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  • A Very Happy Birthday Kubernetes

    Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Blog

    Last year at OSCON, I got to reconnect with a bunch of friends and see what they have been working on. That turned out to be the Kubernetes 1.0 launch event. Even that day, it was clear the project was supported by a broad community -- a group that …

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