Posts in 2015
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One million requests per second: Dependable and dynamic distributed systems at scale
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 in Blog
Recently, I’ve gotten in the habit of telling people that building a reliable service isn’t that hard. If you give me two Compute Engine virtual machines, a Cloud Load balancer, supervisord and nginx, I can create you a static web service that will …
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Kubernetes 1.1 Performance upgrades, improved tooling and a growing community
Monday, November 09, 2015 in Blog
Since the Kubernetes 1.0 release in July, we’ve seen tremendous adoption by companies building distributed systems to manage their container clusters. We’re also been humbled by the rapid growth of the community who help make Kubernetes better …
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Kubernetes as Foundation for Cloud Native PaaS
Tuesday, November 03, 2015 in Blog
With Kubernetes continuing to gain momentum as a critical tool for building and scaling container based applications, we’ve been thrilled to see a growing number of platform as a service (PaaS) offerings adopt it as a foundation. PaaS developers have …
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Some things you didn’t know about kubectl
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 in Blog
kubectl is the command line tool for interacting with Kubernetes clusters. Many people use it every day to deploy their container workloads into production clusters. But there’s more to kubectl than just kubectl create -f or kubectl rolling-update. …
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Kubernetes Performance Measurements and Roadmap
Thursday, September 10, 2015 in Blog
No matter how flexible and reliable your container orchestration system is, ultimately, you have some work to be done, and you want it completed quickly. For big problems, a common answer is to just throw more machines at the problem. After all, more …
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Using Kubernetes Namespaces to Manage Environments
Friday, August 28, 2015 in Blog
One of the advantages that Kubernetes provides is the ability to manage various environments easier and better than traditional deployment strategies. For most nontrivial applications, you have test, staging, and production environments. You can spin …
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Weekly Kubernetes Community Hangout Notes - July 31 2015
Tuesday, August 04, 2015 in Blog
Every week the Kubernetes contributing community meet virtually over Google Hangouts. We want anyone who's interested to know what's discussed in this forum. Here are the notes from today's meeting: Private Registry Demo - Muhammed Run …
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The Growing Kubernetes Ecosystem
Friday, July 24, 2015 in Blog
Over the past year, we’ve seen fantastic momentum in the Kubernetes project, culminating with the release of Kubernetes v1 earlier this week. We’ve also witnessed the ecosystem around Kubernetes blossom, and wanted to draw attention to some of the …
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Weekly Kubernetes Community Hangout Notes - July 17 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015 in Blog
Every week the Kubernetes contributing community meet virtually over Google Hangouts. We want anyone who's interested to know what's discussed in this forum. Here are the notes from today's meeting: Eric Paris: replacing salt with ansible (if we …
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Strong, Simple SSL for Kubernetes Services
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in Blog
Hi, I’m Evan Brown (@evandbrown) and I work on the solutions architecture team for Google Cloud Platform. I recently wrote an article and tutorial about using Jenkins on Kubernetes to automate the Docker and GCE image build process. Today I’m going …