Posts in 2023
Introducing SIG etcd
By Han Kang (Google), Marek Siarkowicz (Google), Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Tuesday, November 07, 2023 in Blog
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are a fundamental part of the Kubernetes project, with a substantial share of the community activity happening within them. When the need arises, new SIGs can be created, and that was precisely what happened recently. …
Kubernetes Contributor Summit: Behind-the-scenes
By Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Friday, November 03, 2023 in Blog
Every year, just before the official start of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, there's a special event that has a very special place in the hearts of those organizing and participating in it: the Kubernetes Contributor Summit. To find out why, and to provide …
Spotlight on SIG Architecture: Production Readiness
By Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Thursday, November 02, 2023 in Blog
This is the second interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that will cover the different subprojects. In this blog, we will cover the SIG Architecture: Production Readiness subproject. In this SIG Architecture spotlight, we talked with …
Gateway API v1.0: GA Release
By Shane Utt (Kong), Nick Young (Isovalent), Rob Scott (Google) | Tuesday, October 31, 2023 in Blog
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Network, we are pleased to announce the v1.0 release of Gateway API! This release marks a huge milestone for this project. Several key APIs are graduating to GA (generally available), while other significant features have …
Introducing ingress2gateway; Simplifying Upgrades to Gateway API
By Lior Lieberman (Google), Kobi Levi (independent) | Wednesday, October 25, 2023 in Blog
Today we are releasing ingress2gateway, a tool that can help you migrate from Ingress to Gateway API. Gateway API is just weeks away from graduating to GA, if you haven't upgraded yet, now's the time to think about it! Background In the ever-evolving …
Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview
By Craig Box | Tuesday, October 24, 2023 in Blog
Since 2018, one of my favourite contributions to the Kubernetes community has been to share the story of each release. Many of these stories were told on behalf of a past employer; by popular demand, I've brought them back, now under my own name. If …
PersistentVolume Last Phase Transition Time in Kubernetes
By Roman Bednář (Red Hat) | Monday, October 23, 2023 in Blog
In the recent Kubernetes v1.28 release, we (SIG Storage) introduced a new alpha feature that aims to improve PersistentVolume (PV) storage management and help cluster administrators gain better insights into the lifecycle of PVs. With the addition of …
A Quick Recap of 2023 China Kubernetes Contributor Summit
By Paco Xu (DaoCloud), Michael Yao (DaoCloud) | Friday, October 20, 2023 in Blog
On September 26, 2023, the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023, nearly 50 contributors gathered in Shanghai for the Kubernetes Contributor Summit. All participants in the 2023 Kubernetes Contributor Summit This …
Bootstrap an Air Gapped Cluster With Kubeadm
By Rob Mengert (Defense Unicorns) | Thursday, October 12, 2023 in Blog
Ever wonder how software gets deployed onto a system that is deliberately disconnected from the Internet and other networks? These systems are typically disconnected due to their sensitive nature. Sensitive as in utilities (power/water), banking, …
CRI-O is moving towards pkgs.k8s.io
By Sascha Grunert | Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Blog
The Kubernetes community recently announced that their legacy package repositories are frozen, and now they moved to introduced community-owned package repositories powered by the OpenBuildService (OBS). CRI-O has a long history of utilizing OBS for …