Posts in 2017
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Kompose Helps Developers Move Docker Compose Files to Kubernetes
By Charlie Drage (Red Hat) | Thursday, August 10, 2017 in Blog
I'm pleased to announce that Kompose, a conversion tool for developers to transition Docker Compose applications to Kubernetes, has graduated from the Kubernetes Incubator to become an official part of the project. Since our first commit on June 27, …
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Happy Second Birthday: A Kubernetes Retrospective
Friday, July 28, 2017 in Blog
As we do every July, we’re excited to celebrate Kubernetes 2nd birthday! In the two years since GA 1.0 launched as an open source project, Kubernetes (abbreviated as K8s) has grown to become the highest velocity cloud-related project. With more than …
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How Watson Health Cloud Deploys Applications with Kubernetes
By Sandhya Kapoor (IBM) | Friday, July 14, 2017 in Blog
Today’s post is by Sandhya Kapoor, Senior Technologist, Watson Platform for Health, IBM For more than a year, Watson Platform for Health at IBM deployed healthcare applications in virtual machines on our cloud platform. Because virtual machines had …
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Kubernetes 1.7: Security Hardening, Stateful Application Updates and Extensibility
By Aparna Sinha (Google), Ihor Dvoretskyi (Mirantis) | Friday, June 30, 2017 in Blog
This article is by Aparna Sinha and Ihor Dvoretskyi, on behalf of the Kubernetes 1.7 release team. Today we’re announcing Kubernetes 1.7, a milestone release that adds security, storage and extensibility features motivated by widespread production …
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Draft: Kubernetes container development made easy
By Brendan Burns (Microsoft Azure) | Wednesday, May 31, 2017 in Blog
About a month ago Microsoft announced the acquisition of Deis to expand our expertise in containers and Kubernetes. Today, I’m excited to announce a new open source project derived from this newly expanded Azure team: Draft. While by now the …
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Managing microservices with the Istio service mesh
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 in Blog
Today’s post is by the Istio team showing how you can get visibility, resiliency, security and control for your microservices in Kubernetes. Services are at the core of modern software architecture. Deploying a series of modular, small …
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Kubespray Ansible Playbooks foster Collaborative Kubernetes Ops
By Rob Hirschfeld (RackN) | Friday, May 19, 2017 in Blog
Why Kubespray? Making Kubernetes operationally strong is a widely held priority and I track many deployment efforts around the project. The incubated Kubespray project is of particular interest for me because it uses the popular Ansible toolset to …
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Kubernetes: a monitoring guide
By Jean-Mathieu Saponaro (Datadog) | Friday, May 19, 2017 in Blog
Container technologies are taking the infrastructure world by storm. While containers solve or simplify infrastructure management processes, they also introduce significant complexity in terms of orchestration. That’s where Kubernetes comes to our …
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Dancing at the Lip of a Volcano: The Kubernetes Security Process - Explained
By Brandon Philips (CoreOS), Jess Frazelle (Google) | Thursday, May 18, 2017 in Blog
Software running on servers underpins ever growing amounts of the world's commerce, communications, and physical infrastructure. And nearly all of these systems are connected to the internet; which means vital security updates must be applied …
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How Bitmovin is Doing Multi-Stage Canary Deployments with Kubernetes in the Cloud and On-Prem
By Daniel Hoelbling-Inzko (Bitmovin) | Friday, April 21, 2017 in Blog
Running a large scale video encoding infrastructure on multiple public clouds is tough. At Bitmovin, we have been doing it successfully for the last few years, but from an engineering perspective, it’s neither been enjoyable nor particularly fun. So …