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title: " The Growing Kubernetes Ecosystem "
date: 2015-07-24
slug: the-growing-kubernetes-ecosystem
url: /blog/2015/07/The-Growing-Kubernetes-Ecosystem
author: >
   Martin Buhr (Google)
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Over the past year, we’ve seen fantastic momentum in the Kubernetes project, culminating with the release of [Kubernetes v1][4] earlier this week. We’ve also witnessed the ecosystem around Kubernetes blossom, and wanted to draw attention to some of the cooler offerings we’ve seen.


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[CloudBees][6] and the Jenkins community have created a Kubernetes plugin, allowing Jenkins slaves to be built as Docker images and run in Docker hosts managed by Kubernetes, either on the Google Cloud Platform or on a more local Kubernetes instance. These elastic slaves are then brought online as Jenkins schedules jobs for them and destroyed after their builds are complete, ensuring masters have steady access to clean workspaces and minimizing builds’ resource footprint.

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