Linode Blog > Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)

We’ve been working to quickly expand the global availability of Linode Kubernetes Engine. Deploy now in one of the three recently added data centers.

We’re proud to announce the general availability release of Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE), now the easiest fully-managed container orchestration platform on the market.

Today we announced the open beta for Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE). While Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for orchestrating containerized workloads, running it remains unnecessarily difficult. Linode Kubernetes Engine overcomes the challenges of today’s offerings through enhanced automation and a reimagined user experience.

Linode Systems Engineer Jon “jfred” Frederickson shares his experience building out the IP whitelisting feature for running Kubernetes on Linode. As Linode’s engineering team built out our Kubernetes features, we hit plenty of obstacles, as expected. However, one challenge arose that we weren’t anticipating: how to whitelist applications running in Kubernetes on the infrastructure we […]

Rancher 2.3 makes it easier to use Linode for Kubernetes As the Linode community continues to adopt Docker and Kubernetes for their workloads, we started working with Rancher to make it easier to deploy and manage your Kuberenetes clusters with Rancher on Linode. Back in April, we launched the Linode Node Driver for Rancher and […]

Hi! Andrew here—developer at Linode. In the process of building a managed Kubernetes solution, I’ve discovered and created several tricks that I use to make daily tasks with Kubernetes easier. I wanted to share these five here with you and I hope you find them as helpful as I have. 1. The Meta-Shell Trick I first […]

The Linode engineering team has been working overtime to respond to the needs of our customers and the market. We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of the Linode Kubernetes Engine beta program. What to expect? Kubernetes made simpler. Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized […]

Linode’s Documentation team recently released a comprehensive five-part tutorial to help readers discover and implement the Kubernetes container orchestration system, often referred to as k8s. A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes answers fundamental questions and introduces essential principles of Kubernetes. The guide is supplemented by a reference and glossary to explain new terminology while progressing through […]

Linode’s latest technical docs include a robust beginner’s guide to Kubernetes, how to add WireGuard VPN security measures, and how to use Pulumi for your Linodes. Take a look and leave a comment on the docs to share your feedback. Kubernetes resources A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes A robust, five-part series to help you better […]

We are happy to announce the new Linode integration for Rancher! Rancher is a free and open source tool that simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters. Instead of using command-line tools to access your clusters, Rancher’s web interface provides a logical presentation of all of your deployments, services, and other cluster objects, and […]

We’re pleased to announce that Linode now supports Docker right out of the box. Docker allows you to create lightweight containers for your applications as well as use images created by other users. Docker’s latest release, 0.7, focused on supporting a wider range of standard kernel configuration options, and we’ve released a new kernel (3.12.6) […]