Posts in 2023
Kubernetes 1.29: Single Pod Access Mode for PersistentVolumes Graduates to Stable
By Chris Henzie (Google) | Monday, December 18, 2023 in Blog
With the release of Kubernetes v1.29, the ReadWriteOncePod volume access mode has graduated to general availability: it's part of Kubernetes' stable API. In this blog post, I'll take a closer look at this access mode and what it does. What is …
Kubernetes 1.29: New (alpha) Feature, Load Balancer IP Mode for Services
By Aohan Yang | Monday, December 18, 2023 in Blog
This blog introduces a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.29. It provides a configurable approach to define how Service implementations, exemplified in this blog by kube-proxy, handle traffic from pods to the Service, within the cluster. Background In …
Kubernetes 1.29: VolumeAttributesClass for Volume Modification
By Sunny Song (Google) | Friday, December 15, 2023 in Blog
The v1.29 release of Kubernetes introduced an alpha feature to support modifying a volume by changing the volumeAttributesClassName that was specified for a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC). With the feature enabled, Kubernetes can handle updates of …
Kubernetes 1.29: CSI Storage Resizing Authenticated and Generally Available in v1.29
By Humble Chirammal (Vmware), Louis Koo (deeproute.ai) | Friday, December 15, 2023 in Blog
Kubernetes version v1.29 brings generally available support for authentication during CSI (Container Storage Interface) storage resize operations. Let's embark on the evolution of this feature, initially introduced in alpha in Kubernetes v1.25, and …
Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components
By Michael McCune (Red Hat), Andrew Sy Kim (Google) | Thursday, December 14, 2023 in Blog
For Kubernetes v1.29, you need to use additional components to integrate your Kubernetes cluster with a cloud infrastructure provider. By default, Kubernetes v1.29 components abort if you try to specify integration with any cloud provider using one …
Kubernetes v1.29: Mandala
By Kubernetes v1.29 Release Team | Wednesday, December 13, 2023 in Blog
Editors: Carol Valencia, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy, James Quigley Announcing the release of Kubernetes v1.29: Mandala (The Universe), the last release of 2023! Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.29 introduces new …
New Experimental Features in Gateway API v1.0
By Candace Holman (Red Hat), Dave Protasowski (VMware), Gaurav K Ghildiyal (Google), John Howard (Google), Simone Rodigari (IBM) | Tuesday, November 28, 2023 in Blog
Recently, the Gateway API announced its v1.0 GA release, marking a huge milestone for the project. Along with stabilizing some of the core functionality in the API, a number of exciting new experimental features have been added. Backend TLS Policy …
Spotlight on SIG Testing
By Sandipan Panda | Friday, November 24, 2023 in Blog
Welcome to another edition of the SIG spotlight blog series, where we highlight the incredible work being done by various Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within the Kubernetes project. In this edition, we turn our attention to SIG Testing, a group …
The Case for Kubernetes Resource Limits: Predictability vs. Efficiency
By Milan Plžík (Grafana Labs) | Thursday, November 16, 2023 in Blog
There’s been quite a lot of posts suggesting that not using Kubernetes resource limits might be a fairly useful thing (for example, For the Love of God, Stop Using CPU Limits on Kubernetes or Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU …
Kubernetes Removals, Deprecations, and Major Changes in Kubernetes 1.29
By Carol Valencia, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy, James Quigley, Hosam Kamel | Thursday, November 16, 2023 in Blog
As with every release, Kubernetes v1.29 will introduce feature deprecations and removals. Our continued ability to produce high-quality releases is a testament to our robust development cycle and healthy community. The following are some of the …