Welcome to the sixth issue of kubelist! This week we’ve got a virtual loot crate of links: new project announcements, some meaty blog posts, and another reminder that you need to stop sarcastically posting about “M$” on slashdot. kubelist — it’s like NatureBox for your mind!

Google Cloud teams with Ubisoft for open-source game server project Agones

The kubelist editors consider themselves to be armchair analysts. We are bullish on Kubernetes being the de facto base on which the coming generation of distributed systems is built. That’s why Agones excites us. It’s a special purpose, focused way to create instanced game servers, taking advantage of what Kubernetes has to offer to do it. We expect to see similar projects and products appearing over the next year.

Fitting for our armchair analyst persona, we chose a link on a DOT BIZ domain. You may also wish the read the announcement on Google’s blog, which includes more details and talks about CRDs.

Migrating to Kubernetes with zero downtime: the why and how

On the Manifold blog, Jelmer Snoeck describes migrating a system to Kubernetes. This post includes some great explanations of high availability challenges, coupled with amazing diagrams. One of the kubelist editors has been trying to print out the diagrams as posters, but keeps getting confused when the pictures don’t move like they do in this article.

Disclaimer: The kubelist editors know the author and illustrator of this article. We’d still include it if we didn’t!

Introducing Jenkins X: a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes

This latest addition to the classic Friday the 13th series of American slasher build systems takes place in the far future aboard a Kubernetes cluster. Humanity is now Cloud Native after their servers became too polluted by half-installed RPMs and stray JARs.

In a shocking twist, after Jenkins is defeated, the self-healing capabilities of Kubernetes kick in, and rebuild Jenkins into Uber Jenkins!

Building Container Images Securely on Kubernetes

Jessie Frazelle covers how she built img. This post covers plenty of history and the technical hurdles that make building a container inside another container so hard. At kubelist, we love happy endings, so it’s great to see so much of Jessie’s work on this get merged upstream. We also love Papa John’s, so as far as we’re concerned, this post is the garlic dipping sauce of container blog posts.

Windows Server 2019 will feature Linux and Kubernetes support

Microsoft is that annoying neighbor you had in grade school that moved away, and then came back in high school and now they’re cool and nice and you kind of have a crush on them.

Tweet of the week

More like treat of the week. Happy birthday, Docker!