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Posts in 2023

  • Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 2

    Friday, March 17, 2023 in News

    This is part 2 of a series of blogposts about GPU concurrency mechanisms. In part 1 we focused on pros and cons and use cases for the different technology solutions available on Kubernetes. This series focuses on NVIDIA cards, although similar …

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  • Efficient Access to Shared GPU Resources: Part 1

    Monday, January 09, 2023 in News

    GPUs are shaping the way organizations access and use their data and CERN is not an exception. Traditional High Energy Physics (HEP) analysis and deployments are being rethought and accelerators remain the key to enabling efficient Machine Learning …

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Posts in 2022

  • Announcing CVMFS CSI v2

    Wednesday, November 02, 2022 in News

    We are glad to announce the release of cvmfs-csi v2.0.0 bringing several cool features and making access to CVMFS repositories inside Kubernetes a lot easier. This is a large overhaul of the first version of the driver, see below for some history and …

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  • A Summer of Testing and Chaos

    Friday, July 08, 2022 in News

    After two years of an imposed remote only version, CERN welcomed again a large number of newcomers for the summer student and openlab summer programs. This time two of them will be working in our Kubernetes service team. They’ll be jumping in …

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  • Summary of the GitOps Workshop

    Tuesday, May 10, 2022 in News

    On April 27th we had our Kubernetes GitOps Workshop at CERN, with 130 people attending both in-person and virtually. Slides as well as the full recording of the event are available. Starting from the end here’s a list of the expected follow up …

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  • GitOps Workshop

    Tuesday, April 05, 2022 in News

    GitOps is a set of practices to manage infrastructure and application configurations using Git. It relies on Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications, and a set of reconcilers to apply changes. Workshop goals: …

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Posts in 2021

  • Kubernetes Deprecations and Removals v1.20/21/22

    Thursday, December 09, 2021 in News

    The latest Kubernetes version (v1.20) and the next two releases will bring deprecations and removals of resources and APIs still in use by multiple applications. This is also related to the upstream community decision to avoid APIs remaining …

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