Posts in 2023

  • Kubernetes 1.28: Beta support for using swap on Linux

    By Itamar Holder (Red Hat) | Thursday, August 24, 2023 in Blog

    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, along with many new improvements. …

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  • Kubernetes 1.28: Node podresources API Graduates to GA

    By Francesco Romani (Red Hat) | Wednesday, August 23, 2023 in Blog

    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 Available. What problem does it solve? …

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  • Kubernetes 1.28: Improved failure handling for Jobs

    By Kevin Hannon (G-Research), Michał Woźniak (Google) | Monday, August 21, 2023 in Blog

    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 Pod failure policy to improve the handling of Pod failures …

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  • Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA

    By Roman Bednář (Red Hat) | Friday, August 18, 2023 in Blog

    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 Assignment" feature, …

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  • Kubernetes 1.28: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to GA

    By Xing Yang (VMware), Ashutosh Kumar (Elastic) | Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Blog

    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 stateful workloads to restart on a different node if the …

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  • pkgs.k8s.io: Introducing Kubernetes Community-Owned Package Repositories

    By Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic) | Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Blog

    On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Release, I am very excited to introduce the Kubernetes community-owned software repositories for Debian and RPM packages: pkgs.k8s.io! The new package repositories are replacement for the Google-hosted package repositories …

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  • Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes

    By Kubernetes v1.28 Release Team | Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Blog

    Announcing the release of Kubernetes v1.28 Planternetes, the second release of 2023! This release consists of 45 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 19 are entering Alpha, 14 have graduated to Beta, and 12 have graduated to Stable. Release Theme And …

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  • Spotlight on SIG ContribEx

    By Fyka Ansari | Monday, August 14, 2023 in Blog

    Welcome to the world of Kubernetes and its vibrant contributor community! In this blog post, we'll be shining a spotlight on the Special Interest Group for Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx), an essential component of the Kubernetes project. SIG …

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  • Spotlight on SIG CLI

    By Arpit Agrawal | Thursday, July 20, 2023 in Blog

    In the world of Kubernetes, managing containerized applications at scale requires powerful and efficient tools. The command-line interface (CLI) is an integral part of any developer or operator’s toolkit, offering a convenient and flexible way to …

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  • Confidential Kubernetes: Use Confidential Virtual Machines and Enclaves to improve your cluster security

    By Fabian Kammel (Edgeless Systems), Mikko Ylinen (Intel), Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (IBM) | Thursday, July 06, 2023 in Blog

    In this blog post, we will introduce the concept of Confidential Computing (CC) to improve any computing environment's security and privacy properties. Further, we will show how the Cloud-Native ecosystem, particularly Kubernetes, can benefit from …

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