Posts in 2022
Spotlight on SIG Docs
By Purneswar Prasad | Tuesday, August 02, 2022 in Blog
Introduction The official documentation is the go-to source for any open source project. For Kubernetes, it's an ever-evolving Special Interest Group (SIG) with people constantly putting in their efforts to make details about the project easier to …
Kubernetes Gateway API Graduates to Beta
By Shane Utt (Kong), Rob Scott (Google), Nick Young (VMware), Jeff Apple (HashiCorp) | Wednesday, July 13, 2022 in Blog
We are excited to announce the v0.5.0 release of Gateway API. For the first time, several of our most important Gateway API resources are graduating to beta. Additionally, we are starting a new initiative to explore how Gateway API can be used for …
Annual Report Summary 2021
By Paris Pittman (Steering Committee) | Wednesday, June 01, 2022 in Blog
Last year, we published our first Annual Report Summary for 2020 and it's already time for our second edition! 2021 Annual Report Summary This summary reflects the work that has been done in 2021 and the initiatives on deck for the rest of 2022. …
Kubernetes 1.24: Maximum Unavailable Replicas for StatefulSet
By Mayank Kumar (Salesforce) | Friday, May 27, 2022 in Blog
Kubernetes StatefulSets, since their introduction in 1.5 and becoming stable in 1.9, have been widely used to run stateful applications. They provide stable pod identity, persistent per pod storage and ordered graceful deployment, scaling and rolling …
Contextual Logging in Kubernetes 1.24
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Wednesday, May 25, 2022 in Blog
The Structured Logging Working Group has added new capabilities to the logging infrastructure in Kubernetes 1.24. This blog post explains how developers can take advantage of those to make log output more useful and how they can get involved with …
Kubernetes 1.24: Avoid Collisions Assigning IP Addresses to Services
By Antonio Ojea (Red Hat) | Monday, May 23, 2022 in Blog
In Kubernetes, Services are an abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods. Services can have a cluster-scoped virtual IP address (using a Service of type: ClusterIP). Clients can connect using that virtual IP address, and …
Kubernetes 1.24: Introducing Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Alpha
By Xing Yang (VMware), Yassine Tijani (VMware) | Friday, May 20, 2022 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.24 introduces alpha support for Non-Graceful Node Shutdown. This feature allows stateful workloads to failover to a different node after the original node is shutdown or in a non-recoverable state such as hardware failure or broken OS. …
Kubernetes 1.24: Prevent unauthorised volume mode conversion
By Raunak Pradip Shah (Mirantis) | Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.24 introduces a new alpha-level feature that prevents unauthorised users from modifying the volume mode of a PersistentVolumeClaim created from an existing VolumeSnapshot in the Kubernetes cluster. The problem The Volume Mode determines …
Kubernetes 1.24: Volume Populators Graduate to Beta
By Ben Swartzlander (NetApp) | Monday, May 16, 2022 in Blog
The volume populators feature is now two releases old and entering beta! The AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate defaults to enabled in Kubernetes v1.24, which means that users can specify any custom resource as the data source of a PVC. An earlier blog …
Kubernetes 1.24: gRPC container probes in beta
By Sergey Kanzhelev (Google) | Friday, May 13, 2022 in Blog
_Update: Since this article was posted, the feature was graduated to GA in v1.27 and doesn't require any feature gates to be enabled. With Kubernetes 1.24 the gRPC probes functionality entered beta and is available by default. Now you can configure …