Author: Michael Taufen (Google)
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what’s new in Kubernetes 1.11
Why Dynamic Kubelet Configuration? Kubernetes provides API-centric tooling that significantly improves workflows for managing applications and infrastructure. Most Kubernetes installations, however, run the Kubelet as a native process on each host, outside the scope of standard Kubernetes APIs.
In the past, this meant that cluster administrators and service providers could not rely on Kubernetes APIs to reconfigure Kubelets in a live cluster.