cloud-test: Automated node management, stateful apps and HIPAA compliance come to Google Container Engine

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Automated node management, stateful apps and HIPAA compliance come to Google Container Engine

Monday, December 19, 2016

Posted by David Aronchick, Product Manager, Google Container EngineKubernetes 1.5 releaseGoogle Cloud PlatformGoogle Container Engine

Auto-upgrade and auto-repair for nodes simplify on-going management of your clusters

Simplified cross-cloud federation with support for the new "kubefed" tool

Automated scaling for key cluster add-ons, ensuring improved uptime for critical cluster services

StatefulSets (originally called PetSets) in beta, enabling you to run stateful workloads on Container Engine

HIPAA compliance allowing you to run HIPAA regulated workloads in containers (after agreement to Google Cloud’s standard Business Associate Agreement).

GroupBy uses Container Engine to support continuous delivery of new commerce application capabilities for their customers, including retailers such as The Container Store, Urban Outfitters and CVS Health.

“Google Container Engine provides us with the openness, stability and scalability we need to manage and orchestrate our Docker containers. This year, our customers flourished during Black Friday and Cyber Monday with zero outages, downtime or interruptions in service thanks, in part, to Google Container Engine.” - Will Warren, Chief Technology Officer at GroupBy.

MightyTV ported their workloads to Container Engine to power their video recommendation engine, reducing their cost by 33% compared to running on traditional virtual machines. Additionally, they were able to remove a third-party monitoring and logging service and let go of maintaining Kubernetes on their own.