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Navigating Cloud-Native Security - Lessons from a Recent Container Service Vulnerability
Sunday, September 12, 2021 in 2021
4 minute read
The cloud-native landscape is constantly evolving, bringing immense benefits in agility and scale. However, with this evolution comes a complex and ever-changing threat landscape. Recently, a significant vulnerability was reported by Unit 42 …
Happy Anniversary, Gardener! Three Years of Open Source Kubernetes Management
Monday, February 01, 2021 in 2021
9 minute read
Happy New Year Gardeners! As we greet 2021, we also celebrate Gardener’s third anniversary. Gardener was born with its first open source commit on 10.1.2018 (its inception within SAP was of course some 9 months earlier): commit …
Machine Controller Manager
Monday, January 25, 2021 in 2021
7 minute read
Kubernetes is a cloud-native enabler built around the principles for a resilient, manageable, observable, highly automated, loosely coupled system. We know that Kubernetes is infrastructure agnostic with the help of a provider specific Cloud …
STACKIT Kubernetes Engine with Gardener
Thursday, December 03, 2020 in 2020
6 minute read
STACKIT is a digital brand of Europe’s biggest retailer, the Schwarz Group, which consists of Lidl, Kaufland, as well as production and recycling companies. Following the industry trend, the Schwarz Group is in the process of a digital …
Gardener v1.13 Released
Monday, November 23, 2020 in 2020
5 minute read
Dear community, we’re happy to announce a new minor release of Gardener, in fact, the 16th in 2020! v1.13 came out just today after a couple of weeks of code improvements and feature implementations. As usual, this blog post provides brief …
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 …