Case Study: Migrating ETCD Volumes in Production
Friday, November 20, 2020 in 2020
10 minute read
information-outline Note This is a guest commentary from metal-stack. metal-stack is a software that provides an API for provisioning and managing physical servers in the data center. To categorize this product, the terms …
Gardener v1.11 and v1.12 Released
Wednesday, November 04, 2020 in 2020
6 minute read
Two months after our last Gardener release update, we are happy again to present release v1.11 and v1.12 in this blog post. Control plane migration, load balancer consolidation, and new security features are just a few topics we progressed with. As …
Shoot Reconciliation Details
Monday, October 19, 2020 in 2020
5 minute read
Do you want to understand how Gardener creates and updates Kubernetes clusters (Shoots)? Well, it’s complicated, but if you are not afraid of large diagrams and are a visual learner like me, this might be useful to you. IntroductionIn this blog …
Gardener Integrates with KubeVirt
Monday, October 19, 2020 in 2020
7 minute read
The Gardener team is happy to announce that Gardener now offers support for an additional, often requested, infrastructure/virtualization technology, namely KubeVirt! Gardener can now provide Kubernetes-conformant clusters using KubeVirt managed …
Gardener v1.9 and v1.10 Released
Friday, September 11, 2020 in 2020
4 minute read
Summer holidays aren’t over yet, still, the Gardener community was able to release two new minor versions in the past weeks. Despite being limited in capacity these days, we were able to reach some major milestones, like adding Kubernetes v1.19 …
Gardener v1.8.0 Released
Thursday, August 06, 2020 in 2020
6 minute read
Even if we are in the midst of the summer holidays, a new Gardener release came out yesterday: v1.8.0! It’s main themes are the large change of our logging stack to Loki (which was already explained in detail on a blog post on grafana.com), …
PingCAP’s Experience in Implementing Their Managed TiDB Service with Gardener
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in 2020
7 minute read
Gardener is showing successful collaboration with its growing community of contributors and adopters. With this come some success stories, including PingCAP using Gardener to implement its managed service. About PingCAP and Its TiDB CloudPingCAP …
New Website, Same Green Flower
Monday, May 11, 2020 in 2020
2 minute read
The Gardener project website just received a serious facelift. Here are some of the highlights: A completely new landing page, emphasizing both on Gardener’s value proposition and the open community behind it. The Community page was …
Organizing Access Using kubeconfig Files
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 in 2019
less than a minute
The kubectl command-line tool uses kubeconfig files to find the information it needs in order to choose a cluster and communicate with its API server. What happens if the kubeconfig file of your production cluster is leaked or published by …
Feature Flags in Kubernetes Applications
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 in 2019
less than a minute
Feature flags are used to change the behavior of a program at runtime without forcing a restart. Although they are essential in a native cloud environment, they cannot be implemented without significant effort on some platforms. Kubernetes has made …