KubeWeekly #157

Published: December 5, 2018

The Headlines

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

Kubernetes 1.13: Simplified Cluster Management with Kubeadm, Container Storage Interface (CSI), and CoreDNS as Default DNS are Now Generally
The 1.13 Release Team

Kubernetes 1.13 has been one of the shortest releases to date at 10 weeks. This release continues to focus on stability and extensibility of Kubernetes with three major features graduating to general availability this cycle in the areas of Storage and Cluster Lifecycle. Notable features graduating in this release include: simplified cluster management with kubeadm, Container Storage Interface (CSI), and CoreDNS as the default DNS.

Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster Creation with kubeadm
Lucas Käldström & Luc Perkins, CNCF

kubeadm is a tool that enables Kubernetes administrators to quickly and easily bootstrap minimum viable clusters that are fully compliant with Certified Kubernetes guidelines. This GA release of kubeadm is an important event in the progression of the Kubernetes ecosystem, bringing stability to an area where stability is paramount.

The Kubernetes Cluster API
Kris Nova, Heptio

The Cluster API was created to solve for how to create the right abstraction for bringing up a Kubernetes cluster and managing it once it’s online. Learn More about the Cluster API from Kris Nova (Heptio) and Loc Nguyen (VMware) live at Kubecon 2018 during their presentation on the topic.
New Webinar: What’s New in Kubernetes 1.13

Kubernetes 1.13 Release Team
January 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
REGISTER NOW »

The Technical

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

K8s Selenium Grid — Selenium Grid with Docker on Kubernetes
Pilla Subbarao

Kubernetes Ingress Controllers and Certificates: The Walkthrough
Jessica Dean, Microsoft

Unprivileged OCI image builds on Kubernetes
Nandor Kracser, Banzai Cloud

The Mechanics of Kubernetes
Dominik Tornow, SAP & Andrew Chen, Google

Running Vault and Consul on Kubernetes
Michael Herman, TestDriven.io

Kubernetes & Traefik locally with a wildcard certificate
Hugo Muller-Downing, Localz

Exposing Kubernetes workloads to the world without losing sleep (or your mind)!
Elad Ishay

A Cloud-Native API Part 2: Google Endpoints
Alex Hester, High Alpha

Istio step-by-step Part 04 — Traffic routing path of Istio service-mesh
Nethmini Romina, WSO2 Inc.

Tooling Spotlight:

danderson/virtuakube — Virtuakube sets up virtual Kubernetes clusters for testing.
stefanprodan/flagger – Flagger is a Istio progressive delivery Kubernetes operator.

There is a @kubernetesio CVE that y'all should be aware of: https://t.co/X7xi5pwT01. Thanks to the k8s security team (incl @liggitt) for working hard to get this dealt with in a responsible way. Upgrade now!
— Joe Beda (@jbeda) December 3, 2018