Kubernetes Blog

Posts in 2017

• Kompose Helps Developers Move Docker Compose Files to Kubernetes

  Thursday, August 10, 2017 in Blog

  Editor's note: today's post is by Charlie Drage, Software Engineer at Red Hat giving an update about the Kubernetes project Kompose. I'm pleased to announce that Kompose, a conversion tool for developers to transition Docker Compose applications to …

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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

  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

  Friday, June 30, 2017 in Blog

  Today we’re announcing Kubernetes 1.7, a milestone release that adds security, storage and extensibility features motivated by widespread production use of Kubernetes in the most demanding enterprise environments. At-a-glance, security enhancements …

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• Draft: Kubernetes container development made easy

  Wednesday, May 31, 2017 in Blog

  _Today's post is by _Brendan Burns, Director of Engineering at Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes co-founder. About a month ago Microsoft announced the acquisition of Deis to expand our expertise in containers and Kubernetes. Today, I’m excited to …

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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

  Friday, May 19, 2017 in Blog

  Today’s guest post is by Rob Hirschfeld, co-founder of open infrastructure automation project, Digital Rebar and co-chair of the SIG Cluster Ops. Why Kubespray? Making Kubernetes operationally strong is a widely held priority and I track many …

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• Kubernetes: a monitoring guide

  Friday, May 19, 2017 in Blog

  Today’s post is by Jean-Mathieu Saponaro, Research & Analytics Engineer at Datadog, discussing what Kubernetes changes for monitoring, and how you can prepare to properly monitor a containerized infrastructure orchestrated by Kubernetes. …

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• Dancing at the Lip of a Volcano: The Kubernetes Security Process - Explained

  Thursday, May 18, 2017 in Blog

  Editor's note: Today’s post is by Jess Frazelle of Google and Brandon Philips of CoreOS about the Kubernetes security disclosures and response policy. Software running on servers underpins ever growing amounts of the world's commerce, …

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• How Bitmovin is Doing Multi-Stage Canary Deployments with Kubernetes in the Cloud and On-Prem

  Friday, April 21, 2017 in Blog

  Editor's Note: Today’s post is by Daniel Hoelbling-Inzko, Infrastructure Architect at Bitmovin, a company that provides services that transcode digital video and audio to streaming formats, sharing insights about their use of Kubernetes. Running a …

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