Kubernetes 1.3 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by esseti » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 3:02 PM UTC

crb wrote: post #10

esseti wrote: post #5

I run into kubernetes a week ago. Found out this: https://www.udacity.com/course/scalable-microservices-with-k... Sounds pretty interesting, especially all the part about service discovery & node health/replacement. Anyone using it for production?

We (Google) are :-) Otherwise, there's a list at http://kubernetes.io/community/ , including: New York Times, eBay, Wikimedia Foundation, Box, Soundcloud, Viacom, and Goldman Sachs, to name a few.

Duh, that's a nice list of references. I'll try to get trough the documentations and tutorial. It seems to solve a lot of troubles when we (normal people) have to deal when deploying docker container (in aws for example). Among others service discovery and health of nodes.

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by justinsb » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

nkvoll wrote: post #6

crb wrote: post #2

1.3.0 is tagged, yes. The actual release (docs, release notes, etc) will happen early next week.

Not to get into a discussion regarding what constitutes a "Release" for any specific project, whether it's tagging, pushing, announcing[0], updating documentation, creating release notes, publish a release blog post and so on. A final build of 1.3 was tagged with an accompanying changelog and announcement post. I found it weird that it had no more ceremony, nor any prior submission on hn, and as it had been announced…

I'm glad you posted it - thanks!

My understanding is that with the timing of the US holiday, it made more sense to hold off on the official announcement for a few days. So that's why there aren't more announcements / release notes etc; and likely there won't be as many people around the community channels to help with any 1.3 questions this (long) weekend.

You should expect the normal release procedure next week! And if you want to try it out you can, but most of the aspects of a release other than publishing the binaries are coming soon.

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by TheIronYuppie » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC

We are really proud of this release, both making it much easier to get started (with a laptop ready local development experience) as well as large scale enterprise features (support for stateful applications, IAM integration, 2x scale).

As others in the thread mentioned, this was the cut of the binary, we'll be talking a lot more about it, updating docs and sharing customer stories in the coming weeks.

Thanks, and please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by TheIronYuppie » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

jmspring wrote: post #9

EDevil wrote: post #8

Now if only a native Azure provider was developed it would be excellent...

The status of K8s on Azure is being updated here - https://github.com/colemickens/azure-kubernetes-status

Cole has been an absolute machine working on this - we'd love your help! Net, though, is that extending Kubernetes in this way is available to everyone - we support ~15 different cloud and OS configurations today, we'd love to support more!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by philips » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 4:39 PM UTC

Yea! The team at CoreOS is really excited about this release and the work that we have done as a community.

If you are interested in some of the things that we helped get into this release see our "preview" blog post from a few weeks ago, RBAC, rkt container engine, simpler install, and more: https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-v1.3-preview.html

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by philips » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 4:43 PM UTC

jackweirdy wrote: post #4

Wow, spooky coincidence - I discovered and installed this for the first time today! The docs could use some work, but generally pretty easy to get started. Great to see an openstack provider's been added, too.

Which guides did you use?

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by jturolla » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 4:46 PM UTC

Really amazed by their great work. I'll look forward to upgrade the setup at my company. Since we started using kubernetes, we reduced our bill to 30% of its original price, and it made everything easier and scalable just as if we were using the costy Heroku. It's a really useful tech for third-world startups that cannot afford to spend thousands of dollars on infraestructure. I hope I can contribute to this OSS in the near future.

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by brianwawok » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:11 PM UTC

hnarayanan wrote: post #7

This is exciting. I need to update my Django Kubernetes tutorial ( https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/kubernetes-django/ ) with some new constructs that simplify things.

Django is about the perfect use case for a Kubernetes tutorial.. because it has enough moving parts that you need to do some trickery, but not 10 levels deep.

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by brianwawok » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:12 PM UTC

EDevil wrote: post #8

Now if only a native Azure provider was developed it would be excellent...

Why would I want to take my perfectly nice VMs and run them on a windows server?

Re: Kubernetes 1.3 released

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Post by chrissnell » Sat, Jul 02, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

jturolla wrote: post #17

Really amazed by their great work. I'll look forward to upgrade the setup at my company. Since we started using kubernetes, we reduced our bill to 30% of its original price, and it made everything easier and scalable just as if we were using the costy Heroku. It's a really useful tech for third-world startups that cannot afford to spend thousands of dollars on infraestructure. I hope I can contribute to this OSS in t…

We've seen similar savings at our company. We have deployed Kube on a 6-node cluster of CoreOS nodes with 512GB each. These are dedicated servers hosted at Rackspace. We're about 30-40% utilized on RAM and maybe 15-20% on CPU. To host a similar set of services on our older Openstack environment would require at least 2-3x the number of servers. The cost savings isn't even the best part. Kubernetes has allowed us to build a completely self-service pipeline for our devs and has taken the ops team out of day-to-day app management. The nodes update themselves with the latest OS and Kube shifts the workload around as they do. This infrastructure is faster, more nimble, more cost-effective and so much easier to run.

This is the best infrastructure I've ever used in twenty years of doing ops and leading ops teams.