Kubernetes provides workload portability. That is, any workloads should spontaneously run on any type of infrastructure where Kubernetes clusters are deployed. In the case of handling stateful workloads, it may not easy to set up persistent storage but it is not impossible. The Kubernetes community has addressed the issue for stateful services and different storage options with CSI along with dynamic provisioning of persistent storage using storage classes. These allow integrating remote block/file storage easily into K8S clusters and can run on any different K8S-based clusters.

In this e-book, we will explore the above mentioned and alternative methodologies used by Kubernetes. We have reviewed Kubernetes for data storage and as an enabler for maximizing the efficiency of management and deployment of the containers, specifically in the light of stateful services.

Tess.IO is eBay’s new unified cloud infrastructure based on Kubernetes. With more and more applications being deployed on the Tess cluster, the requirements for scalability and capability of the cluster are growing. This article describes how to achieve 5000-node scalability for the tess.IO cluster.

A list of the most interesting new features in Kubernetes 1.16

Kubernetes livenessProbe can be dangerous. I recommend to avoid them unless you have a clear use case and understand the consequences. This post looks at both Liveness and Readiness Probes and describes some "DOs" and "DON'Ts"

Understanding, controlling and securing your external service access is one of the key benefits that you get from a service mesh like Istio. From a security and operations point of view, it is critical to monitor what external service traffic is getting blocked as they might surface possible misconfigurations or a security vulnerability if an application is attempting to communicate with a service that it should not be allowed to. Similarly, if you currently have a policy of allowing any external service access, it is beneficial to monitor the traffic so you can incrementally add explicit Istio configuration to allow access and better security your cluster. In either case, having visibility into this traffic via telemetry is quite helpful as it enables you to create alerts and dashboards, and better reason about your security posture. This was a highly requested feature by production users of Istio and we are excited that the support for this was added in release 1.3.

Setting Kubernetes requests and limits effectively has a major impact on application performance, stability, and cost. And yet working with many teams over the past year has shown us that determining the right values for these parameters is hard. For this reason, we have created this short guide and are launching a new product to help teams more accurately set Kubernetes requests and limits for their applications.

This month the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) formally adopted KubeVirt into the CNCF Sandbox. KubeVirt allows you to provision, manage and run virtual machines from and within Kubernetes. In joining the CNCF Sandbox, KubeVirt now has a more substantial platform to grow as well as educate the CNCF community on the use cases for placing virtual machines within Kubernetes. The CNCF onboards projects into the CNCF Sandbox when they warrant experimentation on neutral ground to promote and foster collaborative development.

A new release of Istio, version 1.3, makes using the service mesh platform even easier.

Traefik 2.0 is out. A lot of new features.

In this post, we’ll be outlining how to easily upgrade Istio control planes to 1.3 with the Banzai Cloud Istio operator, within a single-mesh multi-cluster topology or across a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud service mesh.

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha.

How do Kubernetes and OpenStack integrate and what are the benefits? Sagar Nangare has the answers

In this video, Stephanie Wong shows you how to deploy serverless containers using Cloud Run. See three ways to run OpenOffice as a serverless microservice, and learn how Knative and Cloud Run give you the flexibility of serverless and the portability of containers.

etcd 3.4 focuses on stability, performance and ease of operation, with features like pre-vote and non-voting member and improvements to storage backend and client balancer.

The Vault Secrets Operator creates a Kubernetes secret from Vault. The idea behind the Vault Secrets Operator is to manage secrets in Kubernetes cluster using a secure GitOps based workflow.