Cloud Native Apps

Set up VMware Enterprise PKS in a Snap with the New Installation Wizard

Xiao Gao posted 3 days ago

VMware recently announced VMware Enterprise PKS 1.4 on April 23. With this new release, we are now offering a new GUI-based installation wizard—currently in Beta—that greatly simplifies the initial installation and configuration of the product. The new wizard significantly reduces installation time and provides flexible configuration options to fine-tune VMware Enterprise PKS with its supporting Read more...

Cluster API Lays the Groundwork for Declarative Kubernetes Lifecycle Management with v1alpha1

Jason DeTiberus posted 5 days ago

As we approach the four-year anniversary of the Kubernetes v1.0 release, one of the most difficult challenges facing organizations continues to be managing the operational lifecycle of their Kubernetes clusters. Within the Kubernetes community, the task of improving this experience belongs to the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group. The objective of the SIG is to Read more...

Fast and Easy Sonobuoy Plugins for Custom Testing of Almost Anything

John Schnake posted April 30, 2019

Today we are releasing Sonobuoy 0.14.2, which delivers on one of our top roadmap goals: increased support for custom plugins, allowing developers and operators to extend Sonobuoy with additional tests and data gathering. It is now possible to easily create a plugin from a Docker image and run it within Sonobuoy without manually editing any Read more...

Announcing VMware Enterprise PKS 1.4

Ning Ge posted April 23, 2019

Enhanced Security, Networking, Installation, and Automation to Help You Operationalize Upstream Kubernetes Editor’s note: VMware Enterprise PKS 1.4 became generally available on April 25, 2019. Go here to read the release notes. At VMware, our goal is to help you run upstream Kubernetes anywhere. That’s why we’re excited to announce VMware Enterprise PKS 1.4, which Read more...

Announcing VMware Essential PKS 1.14: Expert Guidance on Your Path to Upstream Kubernetes

Megan Bruce posted April 19, 2019

In a recent Medium post, Tinder engineers wrote about their experience migrating the Tinder platform to Kubernetes. It was an in-house effort that took nearly two years, but in the end, Tinder significantly cut its AWS bill, built in-house Kubernetes expertise, and redefined its people structure so that every developer can easily provision infrastructure and, Read more...

Supercharging Kubernetes Storage with CSI

Vladimir Vivien posted April 18, 2019

By Vladimir Vivien, Staff Engineer at VMware One of the most important propositions of Kubernetes is the ability to seamlessly provide storage capabilities on nodes where workloads are scheduled. Kubernetes provides a powerful plugin framework, along with a standard API, that allows different storage systems to be exposed as volume plugins. This framework standardizes the Read more...

Deploying New App Versions by Using Blue-Green Deployments with Contour’s IngressRoute

Steve Sloka posted April 12, 2019

Canary deployments can be a great way to gradually see how a new version of an application will perform by rolling out the new version incrementally. Sometimes, however, your application can’t be deployed that way due to dependencies such as database migrations or application design differences between versions. In these cases, blue-green deployments can be Read more...

Isolated to Conformant: Testing Air-Gapped Kubernetes with Sonobuoy 0.14

John Schnake posted April 2, 2019

Today we are releasing Sonobuoy 0.14.0, which delivers on one of our top roadmap goals: support for running Kubernetes end-to-end tests in air-gapped environments. It is now possible to run the end-to-end suite and validate your cluster’s state without Internet connectivity or investment in a custom, ad hoc work around. An open-source diagnostic tool, Sonobuoy Read more...

Kubernetes 1.14 Puts the Spotlight on Consistent Change, Windows Node Support, and Cluster API

Stephen Augustus posted March 25, 2019

By Stephen Augustus, Senior Cloud Native Architect at VMware Another quarter, another Kubernetes release! We’re back again to highlight some of the bigger ticket improvements in the ecosystem for Kubernetes 1.14. In keeping with one of the project values (“Community over product or company”), this cycle yielded lots of interesting cross-organization collaborations—one improves the way Read more...

Getting Started with Application Monitoring with Prometheus on VMware Enterprise PKS

Xiao Gao posted March 20, 2019

As monolithic apps are refactored into microservices and orchestrated with Kubernetes, requirements for monitoring those apps are changing. To start, instrumentation to capture application data needs to be at a container level, at scale, across thousands of endpoints. Because Kubernetes workloads are ephemeral by default and can start or stop at any time, application monitoring Read more...