KubeWeekly #135

Published: May 30, 2018

The Headlines

Editor’s picks of the highlights from the past week.

Say Hello to Discuss Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/30/say-hello-to-discuss-kubernetes/)
Jorge Castro, Heptio

Communication is key when it comes to engaging a community of over 35,000 people in a global and remote environment. Say hello to Kubernetes new community forum: discuss.kubernetes.io (https://discuss.kubernetes.io/) . This gives people a place to go where they can discuss Kubernetes, and a sounding board for developers to make announcements of things happening around Kubernetes, all while being searchable and easily accessible to a wider audience. Come introduce yourself and check it out!

Automated TLS with cert-manager and Let’s Encrypt for Kubernetes (https://itnext.io/automated-tls-with-cert-manager-and-letsencrypt-for-kubernetes-7daaa5e0cae4)
Jessica Grebenschikov, ReactiveOps

Did you ever dream of the day where there would be free TLS certs that were automatically created and renewed when a new service shows up? cert-manager is a service that automatically creates and manages TLS certs in Kubernetes. If you’re using Kubernetes in production, check out how to setup cert-manager in a Kubernetes cluster with free TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt.

Autoscaling Your Kubernetes Service (https://sgringwe.com/autoscaling-your-kubernetes-service-12107d7d5f4a)
Scott Ringwelski, Handshake

Kubernetes provides a lot of out of the box tools for autoscaling but if you’re running a highly available system where errors, timeouts, or downtime are unacceptable then there is a bit more digging required. Check out these steps to get autoscaling in a highly available system on Kubernetes working.
New Webinar: Continuous Integration and Delivery with Kubernetes

James Strachan – Senior Architect, CloudBees
June 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
REGISTER NOW » (https://www.cncf.io/event/webinar-ci-cd-kubernetes/)

The Technical

Tutorials, tools, and more that take you on a deep dive into the code.

Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/24/kubernetes-containerd-integration-goes-ga/)
Lantao Liu, Google; Mike Brown, IBM

Cloudify Spring Boot Application (Part I) (https://koudingspawn.de/spring-boot-cloud-ready-part-i/)
Björn Wenzel, koudingspawn

Simulating hundreds of IoT devices with Kubernetes (https://blog.quickbird.uk/simulating-iot-devices-with-kubernetes-e6f2ccf0f2f3)
Vladimir Akopyan, Quickbird

A Kubernetes cluster on VirtualBox (https://medium.com/@anisinanaj/a-kubernetes-cluster-on-virtualbox-20d64666a678)
Ani Sinanaj, Progress44

Introducing kustomize; Template-free Configuration Customization for Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/29/introducing-kustomize-template-free-configuration-customization-for-kubernetes/)
Jeff Regan & Phil Whittrock, Google

Running Kubernetes on Scaleway bare-metal with Terraform and kubeadm (https://medium.com/@stefanprodan/running-kubernetes-on-scaleway-bare-metal-with-terraform-and-kubeadm-1cf18aae32d5)
Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks

Nussknacker (with Flink) on Kubernetes (https://medium.com/@pjagielski/nussknacker-with-flink-on-kubernetes-36eb1a5963a3)
Piotr Jagielski, TouK
https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/999110977617461248

The Editorial

Articles, announcements, and more that give you a high-level overview of challenges and features.

The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3276009/open-source-tools/the-kubernetes-fork-open-source-purists-miss-the-point.html)
Matt Asay, InfoWorld

Kubernetes won- so now what? (http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/05/25/kubernetes-won-so-now-what/)
James Governor, RedMonk

Why Kubernetes is emerging as a critical enabler of multi-cloud (https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Why-Kubernetes-is-emerging-as-a-critical-enabler-of-multi-cloud)
Daniel Robinson, ComputerWeekly

Aparna Sinha talks Kubernetes (https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2018/05/25/aparna-sinha-talks-kubernetes/)
Ian Murphy, InfoQ

Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntus-mark-shuttleworth-pulls-no-punches-on-red-hat-and-vmware-in-openstack-cloud/)
Steven Nichols, ZDNet

Polymer+Node+K8s = All Kinds of Awesome (https://medium.com/@johnclarke_82232/polymer-node-k8s-all-kinds-of-awesome-767032ed6b94)
John Clarke, GlobalFreightSolutions

Going all in with Kubernetes (Part 1) (https://engineering.carsguide.com.au/going-all-in-with-kubernetes-part-1-1823e51ce07f)
Richard Sands, CarsGuide

Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry (https://medium.com/@slynko/kubernetes-with-cloud-foundry-2fef09efbdb6)
Oleksandr Slynko, Pivotal

Atlassian Releases Escalator, an Autoscaling Tool for Kubernetes Nodes (https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/atlassian-kubernetes-autoscaler)
Hrishikesh Barua, InfoQ
https://twitter.com/nigelpoulton/status/999966561896189953

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KubeWeekly is curated by ** Ryan Quackenbush (https://twitter.com/RSQuackenbush)
and ** Kaitlyn Barnard (https://twitter.com/kaitlyn_barnard)