Posts in 2021
Kubernetes Memory Manager moves to beta
By Artyom Lukianov (Red Hat), Cezary Zukowski (Samsung) | Wednesday, August 11, 2021 in Blog
The blog post explains some of the internals of the Memory manager, a beta feature of Kubernetes 1.22. In Kubernetes, the Memory Manager is a kubelet subcomponent. The memory manage provides guaranteed memory (and hugepages) allocation for pods in …
New in Kubernetes v1.22: alpha support for using swap memory
By Elana Hashman (Red Hat) | Monday, August 09, 2021 in Blog
The 1.22 release introduced alpha support for configuring swap memory usage for Kubernetes workloads on a per-node basis. In prior releases, Kubernetes did not support the use of swap memory on Linux, as it is difficult to provide guarantees and …
Kubernetes 1.22: CSI Windows Support (with CSI Proxy) reaches GA
By Mauricio Poppe (Google), Jing Xu (Google), Deep Debroy (Apple) | Monday, August 09, 2021 in Blog
The stable version of CSI Proxy for Windows has been released alongside Kubernetes 1.22. CSI Proxy enables CSI Drivers running on Windows nodes to perform privileged storage operations. Background Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes went …
Kubernetes 1.22: Server Side Apply moves to GA
By Jeffrey Ying (Google) Joe Betz (Google) | Friday, August 06, 2021 in Blog
Server-side Apply (SSA) has been promoted to GA in the Kubernetes v1.22 release. The GA milestone means you can depend on the feature and its API, without fear of future backwards-incompatible changes. GA features are protected by the Kubernetes …
Kubernetes 1.22: Reaching New Peaks
By Kubernetes 1.22 Release Team | Wednesday, August 04, 2021 in Blog
We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.22, the second release of 2021! This release consists of 53 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 24 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha. …
Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview
By Craig Box (Google) | Thursday, July 29, 2021 in Blog
With Kubernetes 1.22 due out next week, now is a great time to look back on 1.21. The release team for that version was led by Nabarun Pal from VMware. Back in April I interviewed Nabarun on the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google; the latest in a …
Updating NGINX-Ingress to use the stable Ingress API
By James Strong, Ricardo Katz | Monday, July 26, 2021 in Blog
With all Kubernetes APIs, there is a process to creating, maintaining, and ultimately deprecating them once they become GA. The networking.k8s.io API group is no different. The upcoming Kubernetes 1.22 release will remove several deprecated APIs that …
Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know
By Celeste Horgan, Adolfo García Veytia, James Laverack, Jeremy Rickard | Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Blog
On April 23, 2021, the Release Team merged a Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) changing the Kubernetes release cycle from four releases a year (once a quarter) to three releases a year. This blog post provides a high level overview about what …
Spotlight on SIG Usability
By Kunal Kushwaha (Civo) | Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Blog
Note:SIG Usability, which is featured in this Spotlight blog, has been deprecated and is no longer active. As a result, the links and information provided in this blog post may no longer be valid or relevant. Should there be renewed interest and …
Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know
By Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog
As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old APIs they replace are deprecated, and eventually removed. See Kubernetes API removals to read more about Kubernetes' policy on removing APIs. We …