cloud-test: Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine

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Kubernetes 1.3 on tap for Google Container Engine

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Posted by David Aronchick, Senior Product ManagerKubernetes 1.3Google Container EngineGoogle Cloud Platform

Integrated Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) roles, giving you full control and visibility to manage your clusters centrally

Native local SSD support with automatic provisioning, to quickly and easily deploy your high-throughput applications

The ability to run different machine types across multiple zones with NodePools, letting you customize your cluster in the way that makes sense for your specific application

Container-VM Image, an underlying OS for your nodes with advanced security and manageability features for container-based environments, ensuring Container Engine can support business critical applications

CCP Games adopted the Kubernetes workflow and has saved more than 300 person-hours/year in troubleshooting for EVE Online, allowing their developers to focus on creative work.

Rayark used Container Engine to launch its newest game, VOEZ, propelling it to the top of the charts in the App Store in Japan. Learn more here.

Partner integrations

CircleCI added support to Container Engine as an endpoint for CI pipeline

Shippable replatformed and added full native support for Container Engine clusters (auth, discovery, provisioning and deployment) from the Shippable cloud console

Citrix introduced its Netscaler CPX Load Balancer that can be configured and deployed to any Container Engine environment

Datastax released a Solution and Reference Architecture for deploying Datastax Enterprise on Container Engine Clusters (using Cloud Deployment Manager)