Posts in 2016

  • Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster using Helm

    Friday, September 09, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm, a Kubernetes package manager. Crunchy Data supplies a set of open source PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL related …

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  • Deploying to Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with kit

    Tuesday, September 06, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Chesley Brown, Full-Stack Engineer, at InVision, talking about how they build and open sourced kit to help them to continuously deploy updates to multiple clusters. Our Docker journey at InVision may sound …

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  • Cloud Native Application Interfaces

    Thursday, September 01, 2016 in Blog

    Standard Interfaces (or, the Thirteenth Factor) --by Brian Grant and Craig Mcluckie, Google When you say we need ‘software standards’ in erudite company, you get some interesting looks. Most concede that software standards have been central to the …

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  • Security Best Practices for Kubernetes Deployment

    Wednesday, August 31, 2016 in Blog

    Note: some of the recommendations in this post are no longer current. Current cluster hardening options are described in this documentation. Editor’s note: today’s post is by Amir Jerbi and Michael Cherny of Aqua Security, describing security best …

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  • Scaling Stateful Applications using Kubernetes Pet Sets and FlexVolumes with Datera Elastic Data Fabric

    Monday, August 29, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Shailesh Mittal, Software Architect and Ashok Rajagopalan, Sr Director Product at Datera Inc, talking about Stateful Application provisioning with Kubernetes on Datera Elastic Data Fabric. Introduction …

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  • SIG Apps: build apps for and operate them in Kubernetes

    Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: This post is by the Kubernetes SIG-Apps team sharing how they focus on the developer and devops experience of running applications in Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an incredible manager for containerized applications. Because of this, …

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  • Kubernetes Namespaces: use cases and insights

    Tuesday, August 16, 2016 in Blog

    “Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third”  Who's on First? by Abbott and Costello Introduction Kubernetes is a system with several concepts. Many of these concepts get manifested as “objects” in the RESTful API (often called …

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  • Create a Couchbase cluster using Kubernetes

    Monday, August 15, 2016 in Blog

    Editor’s note: today’s guest post is by Arun Gupta, Vice President Developer Relations at Couchbase, showing how to setup a Couchbase cluster with Kubernetes. Couchbase Server is an open source, distributed NoSQL document-oriented database. It …

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  • Challenges of a Remotely Managed, On-Premises, Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster

    Tuesday, August 02, 2016 in Blog

    Today's post is written by Bich Le, chief architect at Platform9, describing how their engineering team overcame challenges in remotely managing bare-metal Kubernetes clusters.  Introduction The recently announced Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) …

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  • Why OpenStack's embrace of Kubernetes is great for both communities

    Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in Blog

    Today, Mirantis, the leading contributor to OpenStack, announced that it will re-write its private cloud platform to use Kubernetes as its underlying orchestration engine. We think this is a great step forward for both the OpenStack and Kubernetes …

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