Posts in 2016

  • Citrix + Kubernetes = A Home Run

    By Mikko Disini (Citrix Systems) | Thursday, July 14, 2016 in Blog

    Technical collaboration is like sports. If you work together as a team, you can go down the homestretch and pull through for a win. That’s our experience with the Google Cloud Platform team. Recently, we approached Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to …

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  • Thousand Instances of Cassandra using Kubernetes Pet Set

    By Chris Love (Datapipe) | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Blog

    Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Running The Greek Pet Monster Races For the Kubernetes 1.3 launch, we wanted to put the new Pet Set through its paces. By testing a thousand instances …

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  • Stateful Applications in Containers!? Kubernetes 1.3 Says “Yes!”

    By Mark Balch (Diamanti) | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 in Blog

    Congratulations to the Kubernetes community on another value-packed release. A focus on stateful applications and federated clusters are two reasons why I’m so excited about 1.3. Kubernetes support for stateful apps such as Cassandra, Kafka, and …

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  • Kubernetes in Rancher: the further evolution

    By Alena Prokharchyk (Rancher Labs) | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in Blog

    Kubernetes was the first external orchestration platform supported by Rancher, and since its release, it has become one of the most widely used among our users, and continues to grow rapidly in adoption. As Kubernetes has evolved, so has Rancher in …

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  • Autoscaling in Kubernetes

    By Jerzy Szczepkowski (Google), Marcin Wielgus (Google) | Tuesday, July 12, 2016 in Blog

    Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 Customers using Kubernetes respond to end user requests quickly and ship software faster than ever before. But what happens when you build a service …

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  • rktnetes brings rkt container engine to Kubernetes

    By Yifan Gu (CoreOS), Josh Wood (CoreOS) | Monday, July 11, 2016 in Blog

    Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 As part of Kubernetes 1.3, we’re happy to report that our work to bring interchangeable container engines to Kubernetes is bearing early fruit. What we …

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  • Minikube: easily run Kubernetes locally

    By Dan Lorenc (Google) | Monday, July 11, 2016 in Blog

    Editor's note: This is the first post in a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 While Kubernetes is one of the best tools for managing containerized applications available today, and has been production-ready for over a year, …

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  • Five Days of Kubernetes 1.3

    Monday, July 11, 2016 in Blog

    Last week we released Kubernetes 1.3, two years from the day when the first Kubernetes commit was pushed to GitHub. Now 30,000+ commits later from over 800 contributors, this 1.3 releases is jam packed with updates driven by feedback from users. …

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  • Updates to Performance and Scalability in Kubernetes 1.3 -- 2,000 node 60,000 pod clusters

    By Wojciech Tyczynski (Google) | Thursday, July 07, 2016 in Blog

    We are proud to announce that with the release of version 1.3, Kubernetes now supports 2000-node clusters with even better end-to-end pod startup time. The latency of our API calls are within our one-second Service Level Objective (SLO) and most of …

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  • Kubernetes 1.3: Bridging Cloud Native and Enterprise Workloads

    By Aparna Sinha (Google) | Wednesday, July 06, 2016 in Blog

    Nearly two years ago, when we officially kicked off the Kubernetes project, we wanted to simplify distributed systems management and provide the core technology required to everyone. The community’s response to this effort has blown us away. Today, …

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