Posts in 2023
Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools: Telepresence, Gefyra, and mirrord
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 in Blog
Author: Eyal Bukchin (MetalBear) The Kubernetes development cycle is an evolving landscape with a myriad of tools seeking to streamline the process. Each tool has its unique approach, and the choice often comes down to individual project …
Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Bob Killen (Google), Chris Short (AWS), Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) On August 15, 2023, the Kubernetes project announced the general availability of the community-owned package …
Gateway API v0.8.0: Introducing Service Mesh Support
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Flynn (Buoyant), John Howard (Google), Keith Mattix (Microsoft), Michael Beaumont (Kong), Mike Morris (independent), Rob Scott (Google) We are thrilled to announce the v0.8.0 release of Gateway API! With this release, Gateway API support for …
Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades
Monday, August 28, 2023 in Blog
Author: Richa Banker (Google) This blog describes the mixed version proxy, a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.28. The mixed version proxy enables an HTTP request for a resource to be served by the correct API server in cases where there are multiple …
Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers
Friday, August 25, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Todd Neal (AWS), Matthias Bertschy (ARMO), Sergey Kanzhelev (Google), Gunju Kim (NAVER), Shannon Kularathna (Google) This post explains how to use the new sidecar feature, which enables restartable init containers and is available in alpha …
Kubernetes 1.28: Beta support for using swap on Linux
Thursday, August 24, 2023 in Blog
Author: Itamar Holder (Red Hat) The 1.22 release introduced Alpha support for configuring swap memory usage for Kubernetes workloads running on Linux on a per-node basis. Now, in release 1.28, support for swap on Linux nodes has graduated to Beta, …
Kubernetes 1.28: Node podresources API Graduates to GA
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 in Blog
Author: Francesco Romani (Red Hat) The podresources API is an API served by the kubelet locally on the node, which exposes the compute resources exclusively allocated to containers. With the release of Kubernetes 1.28, that API is now Generally …
Kubernetes 1.28: Improved failure handling for Jobs
Monday, August 21, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Kevin Hannon (G-Research), Michał Woźniak (Google) This blog discusses two new features in Kubernetes 1.28 to improve Jobs for batch users: Pod replacement policy and Backoff limit per index. These features continue the effort started by the …
Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA
Friday, August 18, 2023 in Blog
Author: Roman Bednář (Red Hat) Announcing graduation to General Availability (GA) - Retroactive Default StorageClass Assignment in Kubernetes v1.28! Kubernetes SIG Storage team is thrilled to announce that the "Retroactive Default StorageClass …
Kubernetes 1.28: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to GA
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Xing Yang (VMware) and Ashutosh Kumar (Elastic) The Kubernetes Non-Graceful Node Shutdown feature is now GA in Kubernetes v1.28. It was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.24, and promoted to beta in Kubernetes v1.26. This feature allows …