Blog: Announcing the 2023 Steering Committee Election Results

Author: Kaslin Fields The 2023 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2023. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community. This community body is significant since it oversees the Read more about Blog: Announcing the 2023 Steering Committee Election Results[…]

Blog: Happy 7th Birthday kubeadm!

Author: Fabrizio Pandini (VMware) What a journey so far! Starting from the initial blog post “How we made Kubernetes insanely easy to install” in September 2016, followed by an exciting growth that lead to general availability / “Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster Creation with kubeadm” two years later. And later on a continuous, steady and reliable flow Read more about Blog: Happy 7th Birthday kubeadm![…]

Blog: kubeadm: Use etcd Learner to Join a Control Plane Node Safely

Author: Paco Xu (DaoCloud) The kubeadm tool now supports etcd learner mode, which allows you to enhance the resilience and stability of your Kubernetes clusters by leveraging the learner mode feature introduced in etcd version 3.4. This guide will walk you through using etcd learner mode with kubeadm. By default, kubeadm runs a local etcd Read more about Blog: kubeadm: Use etcd Learner to Join a Control Plane Node Safely[…]

Blog: User Namespaces: Now Supports Running Stateful Pods in Alpha!

Authors: Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Microsoft), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat), Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user namespaces for only stateless pods. Kubernetes 1.28 lifted that restriction, after some design changes were done in 1.27. The beauty of this feature is that: it is trivial to adopt (you just need to set a Read more about Blog: User Namespaces: Now Supports Running Stateful Pods in Alpha![…]

Blog: Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools: Telepresence, Gefyra, and mirrord

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[…]

Blog: Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023

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[…]

Blog: Gateway API v0.8.0: Introducing Service Mesh Support

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 service mesh has reached Experimental status. We look forward to your feedback! We’re especially delighted to announce that Kuma Read more about Blog: Gateway API v0.8.0: Introducing Service Mesh Support[…]

Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades

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[…]

Blog: Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers

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[…]

Blog: Kubernetes 1.28: Beta support for using swap on Linux

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[…]