Posts in 2025
Kubernetes v1.34: Use An Init Container To Define App Environment Variables
By HirazawaUi | Wednesday, September 10, 2025 in Blog
Kubernetes typically uses ConfigMaps and Secrets to set environment variables, which introduces additional API calls and complexity, For example, you need to separately manage the Pods of your workloads and their configurations, while ensuring …
Kubernetes v1.34: Snapshottable API server cache
By Marek Siarkowicz (Google) | Tuesday, September 09, 2025 in Blog
For years, the Kubernetes community has been on a mission to improve the stability and performance predictability of the API server. A major focus of this effort has been taming list requests, which have historically been a primary source of high …
Kubernetes v1.34: VolumeAttributesClass for Volume Modification GA
By Sunny Song (Google) | Monday, September 08, 2025 in Blog
The VolumeAttributesClass API, which empowers users to dynamically modify volume attributes, has officially graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.34. This marks a significant milestone, providing a robust and stable way to tune your …
Kubernetes v1.34: Pod Replacement Policy for Jobs Goes GA
By Dejan Zele Pejchev (G-Research) | Friday, September 05, 2025 in Blog
In Kubernetes v1.34, the Pod replacement policy feature has reached general availability (GA). This blog post describes the Pod replacement policy feature and how to use it in your Jobs. About Pod Replacement Policy By default, the Job controller …
Kubernetes v1.34: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to Beta
By Haowei Cai (Google) | Thursday, September 04, 2025 in Blog
As Kubernetes clusters grow in size and complexity, understanding the health and performance of individual nodes becomes increasingly critical. We are excited to announce that as of Kubernetes v1.34, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) Metrics has …
Kubernetes v1.34: Service Account Token Integration for Image Pulls Graduates to Beta
By Anish Ramasekar (Microsoft) | Wednesday, September 03, 2025 in Blog
The Kubernetes community continues to advance security best practices by reducing reliance on long-lived credentials. Following the successful alpha release in Kubernetes v1.33, Service Account Token Integration for Kubelet Credential Providers has …
Kubernetes v1.34: Introducing CPU Manager Static Policy Option for Uncore Cache Alignment
By Charles Wong (AMD) | Tuesday, September 02, 2025 in Blog
A new CPU Manager Static Policy Option called prefer-align-cpus-by-uncorecache was introduced in Kubernetes v1.32 as an alpha feature, and has graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.34. This CPU Manager Policy Option is designed to optimize performance …
Kubernetes v1.34: DRA has graduated to GA
By The DRA team | Monday, September 01, 2025 in Blog
Kubernetes 1.34 is here, and it has brought a huge wave of enhancements for Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)! This release marks a major milestone with many APIs in the resource.k8s.io group graduating to General Availability (GA), unlocking the …
Kubernetes v1.34: Finer-Grained Control Over Container Restarts
By Yuan Wang | Friday, August 29, 2025 in Blog
With the release of Kubernetes 1.34, a new alpha feature is introduced that gives you more granular control over container restarts within a Pod. This feature, named Container Restart Policy and Rules, allows you to specify a restart policy for each …
Kubernetes v1.34: User preferences (kuberc) are available for testing in kubectl 1.34
By Maciej Szulik (Defense Unicorns, Inc.) | Thursday, August 28, 2025 in Blog
Have you ever wished you could enable interactive delete, by default, in kubectl? Or maybe, you'd like to have custom aliases defined, but not necessarily generate hundreds of them manually? Look no further. SIG-CLI has been working hard to add user …