Posts in 2020
CSI Ephemeral Inline Volumes
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 in Blog
Author: Patrick Ohly (Intel) Typically, volumes provided by an external storage driver in Kubernetes are persistent, with a lifecycle that is completely independent of pods or (as a special case) loosely coupled to the first pod which uses a volume …
Kubernetes on MIPS
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 in Blog
Authors: TimYin Shi, Dominic Yin, Wang Zhan, Jessica Jiang, Will Cai, Jeffrey Gao, Simon Sun (Inspur) Background MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture …
Announcing the Kubernetes bug bounty program
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Maya Kaczorowski and Tim Allclair, Google, on behalf of the Kubernetes Product Security Committee Today, the Kubernetes Product Security Committee is launching a new bug bounty program, funded by the CNCF, to reward researchers finding …
Remembering Brad Childs
Friday, January 10, 2020 in Blog
Authors: Paul Morie, Red Hat Last year, the Kubernetes family lost one of its own. Brad Childs was a SIG Storage chair and long time contributor to the project. Brad worked on a number of features in storage and was known as much for his friendliness …
Testing of CSI drivers
Wednesday, January 08, 2020 in Blog
Author: Patrick Ohly (Intel) When developing a Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, it is useful to leverage as much prior work as possible. This includes source code (like the sample CSI hostpath driver) but also existing tests. Besides saving …
Posts in 2019
Kubernetes 1.17: Stability
Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.17 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.17, our fourth and final release of 2019! Kubernetes v1.17 consists of 22 enhancements: 14 enhancements have graduated to stable, 4 enhancements are moving …
Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta
Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog
Authors: Xing Yang, VMware & Xiangqian Yu, Google The Kubernetes Volume Snapshot feature is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. It was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.12, with a second alpha with breaking changes in Kubernetes v1.13. This post …
Kubernetes 1.17 Feature: Kubernetes In-Tree to CSI Volume Migration Moves to Beta
Monday, December 09, 2019 in Blog
Authors: David Zhu, Software Engineer, Google The Kubernetes in-tree storage plugin to Container Storage Interface (CSI) migration infrastructure is now beta in Kubernetes v1.17. CSI migration was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.14. Kubernetes …
When you're in the release team, you're family: the Kubernetes 1.16 release interview
Friday, December 06, 2019 in Blog
Author: Craig Box (Google) It is a pleasure to co-host the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google with Adam Glick. We get to talk to friends old and new from the community, as well as give people a download on the Cloud Native news every week. It was …
Gardener Project Update
Monday, December 02, 2019 in Blog
Authors: Rafael Franzke (SAP), Vasu Chandrasekhara (SAP) Last year, we introduced Gardener in the Kubernetes Community Meeting and in a post on the Kubernetes Blog. At SAP, we have been running Gardener for more than two years, and are successfully …