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 requirements, the team’s expertise, and the preferred workflow. Among the various solutions, a category we dubbed “Local K8S Read more about Blog: Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools: Telepresence, Gefyra, and mirrord[…]

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 repositories for Debian and RPM packages available at pkgs.k8s.io. The new package repositories are replacement for the legacy Google-hosted package repositories: apt.kubernetes.io Read more about Blog: Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023[…]

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 API servers at varied versions in a cluster. For example, this is Read more about Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades[…]

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 in Kubernetes 1.28. We want your feedback so that we can graduate this feature as soon as possible. The Read more about Blog: Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers[…]

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, along with many new improvements. Prior to version 1.22, Kubernetes did not provide support for Read more about Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: Beta support for using swap on Linux[…]

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 Available. What problem does it solve? The kubelet can allocate exclusive resources to containers, like CPUs, Read more about Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: Node podresources API Graduates to GA[…]

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 Pod failure policy to improve the handling of Pod failures in a Job. Pod replacement policy By Read more about Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: Improved failure handling for Jobs[…]

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 Assignment” feature, introduced as an alpha in Kubernetes v1.25, has now graduated to GA and is officially part of the Kubernetes v1.28 release. Read more about Blog: Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA[…]

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 stateful workloads to restart on a different node if the original node is shutdown unexpectedly or ends Read more about Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to GA[…]

Author: Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic) 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 (apt.kubernetes.io and yum.kubernetes.io) that we’ve been using since Kubernetes v1.5. This blog post contains information about these Read more about Blog: pkgs.k8s.io: Introducing Kubernetes Community-Owned Package Repositories[…]