Posts in 2023
Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023
By Bob Killen (Google), Chris Short (AWS), Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Thursday, August 31, 2023 in Blog
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 …
Gateway API v0.8.0: Introducing Service Mesh Support
By Flynn (Buoyant), John Howard (Google), Keith Mattix (Microsoft), Michael Beaumont (Kong), Mike Morris (independent), Rob Scott (Google) | Tuesday, August 29, 2023 in Blog
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 2.3+, Linkerd …
Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades
By Richa Banker (Google) | Monday, August 28, 2023 in Blog
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 …
Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers
By Todd Neal (AWS), Matthias Bertschy (ARMO), Sergey Kanzhelev (Google), Gunju Kim (NAVER), Shannon Kularathna (Google) | Friday, August 25, 2023 in Blog
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 concept of a “sidecar” …
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. …
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? …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …