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March 25, 2022

Striving for the Fastest Response Times in Kubernetes Clusters

Quick network response times have become the standard.

33 milliseconds - The amount of time needed for a piece of information to travel from Spain to the U.S. and back via the Marea undersea cable.

March 25, 2022

Striving for the Fastest Response Times in Kubernetes Clusters

Quick network response times have become the standard.

33 milliseconds - The amount of time needed for a piece of information to travel from Spain to the U.S. and back via the Marea undersea cable.

March 17, 2022

Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform 2.20 Is GA! It is with great excitement that we announce the latest release of Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP). With KKP 2.20, we aimed to make KKP more robust by improving naming conventions and further strengthening code quality.

March 11, 2022

Get the Best of Both Worlds With the KKP 2.19 CNI Strategy Kubernetes is all about sharing machines between applications. Typically, sharing machines requires ensuring that two applications don’t try to use the same ports. Managing port allocation across multiple developers is difficult at scale, and exposes users to cluster-level issues they can’t control.

March 03, 2022

Azure Resource Optimization Ever since it became more than an atmospheric mass of condensed water vapor, cloud has provided apps the ability to automatically scale with it and significantly impact its use. Cloud enables teams to operate applications without having to constantly and manually modify the underlying resources to fit the actual demand.

February 17, 2022

Improving Kubernetes Security With the CIS Benchmark and KKP 2.19 With Kubernetes becoming an ubiquitous platform for running software at scale, an obvious but sometimes overlooked topic is security. Over the past years, several guidelines to secure Kubernetes clusters have been released.

January 25, 2022

Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform 2.19 Is GA! It is with great excitement that we announce the latest release of Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP). The 2.19 release focuses on enhancing KKP’s edge and hybrid cloud capabilities and networking performance, enabling you to harness the power of Kubernetes with even greater ease and comfort.

October 14, 2021

Annotating Machine Deployment for Autoscaling In the last post, we discussed Kubernetes Autoscaler in KKP as well as its usage. We also showed you how to install Kubernetes Autoscaler on a KKP Cluster. Now let’s take it a step further and show you how to annotate the MachineDeployments which you want the Autoscaler to recognize.

October 11, 2021

KKP Cluster Autoscaler In a nutshell, it’s a component that automatically adjusts the size of a Kubernetes Cluster so that all pods have a place to run and there are no unneeded nodes.

October 05, 2021

KKPCTL: The Command Line Tool for Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform KKPCTL is a command line tool written by Cedric Kienzler in early 2021 which implements parts of the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) API and lets you access the API via your command line.

September 15, 2021

Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform 2.18 Is Here! Today, we are excited to announce the latest release of Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP). Through our dedicated efforts we are pleased to offer our community one of the most significant updates to date, which includes some great new features like multi user cluster monitoring, logging, and altering, cluster templates, new metering integration, and Open Policy Agent enhancements.

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