Posts in 2024
Kubernetes 1.31: Read Only Volumes Based On OCI Artifacts (alpha)
By Sascha Grunert | Friday, August 16, 2024 in Blog
The Kubernetes community is moving towards fulfilling more Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) use cases in the future. While the project has been designed to fulfill microservice architectures in the past, it’s now time to listen …
Kubernetes 1.31: Prevent PersistentVolume Leaks When Deleting out of Order
By Deepak Kinni (Broadcom) | Friday, August 16, 2024 in Blog
PersistentVolume (or PVs for short) are associated with Reclaim Policy. The reclaim policy is used to determine the actions that need to be taken by the storage backend on deletion of the PVC Bound to a PV. When the reclaim policy is Delete, the …
Kubernetes 1.31: MatchLabelKeys in PodAffinity graduates to beta
By Kensei Nakada (Tetrate) | Friday, August 16, 2024 in Blog
Kubernetes 1.29 introduced new fields matchLabelKeys and mismatchLabelKeys in podAffinity and podAntiAffinity. In Kubernetes 1.31, this feature moves to beta and the corresponding feature gate (MatchLabelKeysInPodAffinity) gets enabled by default. …
Kubernetes v1.31: Accelerating Cluster Performance with Consistent Reads from Cache
By Marek Siarkowicz (Google) | Thursday, August 15, 2024 in Blog
Kubernetes is renowned for its robust orchestration of containerized applications, but as clusters grow, the demands on the control plane can become a bottleneck. A key challenge has been ensuring strongly consistent reads from the etcd datastore, …
Kubernetes 1.31: VolumeAttributesClass for Volume Modification Beta
By Sunny Song (Google) Matthew Cary (Google) | Thursday, August 15, 2024 in Blog
Volumes in Kubernetes have been described by two attributes: their storage class, and their capacity. The storage class is an immutable property of the volume, while the capacity can be changed dynamically with volume resize. This complicates …
Kubernetes v1.31: PersistentVolume Last Phase Transition Time Moves to GA
By Roman Bednář (Red Hat) | Wednesday, August 14, 2024 in Blog
Announcing the graduation to General Availability (GA) of the PersistentVolume lastTransitionTime status field, in Kubernetes v1.31! The Kubernetes SIG Storage team is excited to announce that the "PersistentVolumeLastPhaseTransitionTime" …
Kubernetes 1.31: Moving cgroup v1 Support into Maintenance Mode
By Harshal Patil | Wednesday, August 14, 2024 in Blog
As Kubernetes continues to evolve and adapt to the changing landscape of container orchestration, the community has decided to move cgroup v1 support into maintenance mode in v1.31. This shift aligns with the broader industry's move towards cgroup …
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 …