Google Container Engine and Kubernetes are both amazing. Our team loves using this tech. However, today was the second time that upgrades to Container Engine brought our production site down. The root cause had to do with our Docker version, but that detail doesn't really matter. In order to continue run our production site on Google Container Engine we need to know when upgrades are happening, and we need to be able to test our applications in an upgraded sandbox environment before those changes are rolled out to the production Container Engine.
Am I missing the place where Google notifies it's Container Engine users of the upgrades like the one done today? I see where the Group post appeared several hours after the upgrades were completed <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gke-release-notes>, but that's obviously too little too late. I also see where the Release Notes are published so I thought maybe there was a consistent release schedule, but those dates are all over the place. Our team is starting to talk about self-hosting now because of this, which would be annoying for us to have to spend the energy supporting a container engine instead of focusing on features for our customers. Thank you in advance for your suggestions and answers! Troy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Containers at Google" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-containers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
