Posts in 2024
Kubernetes v1.31: Elli
By Kubernetes v1.31 Release Team | Tuesday, August 13, 2024 in Blog
Editors: Matteo Bianchi, Yigit Demirbas, Abigail McCarthy, Edith Puclla, Rashan Smith Announcing the release of Kubernetes v1.31: Elli! Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.31 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The …
Introducing Feature Gates to Client-Go: Enhancing Flexibility and Control
By Ben Luddy (Red Hat), Lukasz Szaszkiewicz (Red Hat) | Monday, August 12, 2024 in Blog
Kubernetes components use on-off switches called feature gates to manage the risk of adding a new feature. The feature gate mechanism is what enables incremental graduation of a feature through the stages Alpha, Beta, and GA. Kubernetes components, …
Spotlight on SIG API Machinery
By Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Wednesday, August 07, 2024 in Blog
We recently talked with Federico Bongiovanni (Google) and David Eads (Red Hat), Chairs of SIG API Machinery, to know a bit more about this Kubernetes Special Interest Group. Introductions Frederico (FSM): Hello, and thank your for your time. To start …
Kubernetes Removals and Major Changes In v1.31
By Abigail McCarthy, Edith Puclla, Matteo Bianchi, Rashan Smith, Yigit Demirbas | Friday, July 19, 2024 in Blog
As Kubernetes develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This article outlines some planned changes for the Kubernetes v1.31 release that the release team feels you should …
Spotlight on SIG Node
By Arpit Agrawal | Thursday, June 20, 2024 in Blog
In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes reigns supreme, powering some of the most complex and dynamic applications across the globe. Behind the scenes, a network of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) drives Kubernetes' innovation and …
10 Years of Kubernetes
By Bob Killen (CNCF), Chris Short (AWS), Frederico Muñoz (SAS), Kaslin Fields (Google), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory), and every contributor across the globe | Thursday, June 06, 2024 in Blog
Ten (10) years ago, on June 6th, 2014, the first commit of Kubernetes was pushed to GitHub. That first commit with 250 files and 47,501 lines of go, bash and markdown kicked off the project we have today. Who could have predicted that 10 years …
Completing the largest migration in Kubernetes history
By Andrew Sy Kim (Google), Michelle Au (Google), Walter Fender (Google), Michael McCune (Red Hat) | Monday, May 20, 2024 in Blog
Since as early as Kubernetes v1.7, the Kubernetes project has pursued the ambitious goal of removing built-in cloud provider integrations (KEP-2395). While these integrations were instrumental in Kubernetes' early development and growth, their …
Gateway API v1.1: Service mesh, GRPCRoute, and a whole lot more
By Richard Belleville (Google), Frank Budinsky (IBM), Arko Dasgupta (Tetrate), Flynn (Buoyant), Candace Holman (Red Hat), John Howard (Solo.io), Christine Kim (Isovalent), Mattia Lavacca (Kong), Keith Mattix (Microsoft), Mike Morris (Microsoft), Rob Scott (Google), Grant Spence (Red Hat), Shane Utt (Kong), Gina Yeh (Google), and other review and release note contributors | Thursday, May 09, 2024 in Blog
Following the GA release of Gateway API last October, Kubernetes SIG Network is pleased to announce the v1.1 release of Gateway API. In this release, several features are graduating to Standard Channel (GA), notably including support for service …
Container Runtime Interface streaming explained
By Sascha Grunert | Wednesday, May 01, 2024 in Blog
The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) acts as the main connection between the kubelet and the Container Runtime. Those runtimes have to provide a gRPC server which has to fulfill a Kubernetes defined Protocol Buffer interface. This API …
Kubernetes 1.30: Preventing unauthorized volume mode conversion moves to GA
By Raunak Pradip Shah (Mirantis) | Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Blog
With the release of Kubernetes 1.30, the feature to prevent the modification of the volume mode of a PersistentVolumeClaim that was created from an existing VolumeSnapshot in a Kubernetes cluster, has moved to GA! The problem The Volume Mode of a …