Posts in 2021
Kubernetes 1.23: Pod Security Graduates to Beta
Thursday, December 09, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Jim Angel (Google), Lachlan Evenson (Microsoft) With the release of Kubernetes v1.23, Pod Security admission has now entered beta. Pod Security is a built-in admission controller that evaluates pod specifications against a predefined set of …
Kubernetes 1.23: Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 Networking Reaches GA
Wednesday, December 08, 2021 in Blog
Author: Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft) "When will Kubernetes have IPv6?" This question has been asked with increasing frequency ever since alpha support for IPv6 was first added in k8s v1.9. While Kubernetes has supported IPv6-only clusters …
Kubernetes 1.23: The Next Frontier
Tuesday, December 07, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.23 Release Team We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.23, the last release of 2021! This release consists of 47 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 17 enhancements are moving to beta, and 19 …
Contribution, containers and cricket: the Kubernetes 1.22 release interview
Wednesday, December 01, 2021 in Blog
Author: Craig Box (Google) The Kubernetes release train rolls on, and we look ahead to the release of 1.23 next week. As is our tradition, I'm pleased to bring you a look back at the process that brought us the previous version. The release team for …
Quality-of-Service for Memory Resources
Friday, November 26, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Tim Xu (Tencent Cloud) Kubernetes v1.22, released in August 2021, introduced a new alpha feature that improves how Linux nodes implement memory resource requests and limits. In prior releases, Kubernetes did not support memory quality …
Dockershim removal is coming. Are you ready?
Friday, November 12, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Sergey Kanzhelev, Google. With reviews from Davanum Srinivas, Elana Hashman, Noah Kantrowitz, Rey Lejano. Poll closed This poll closed on January 7, 2022. Last year we announced that Kubernetes' dockershim component (which provides a …
Non-root Containers And Devices
Tuesday, November 09, 2021 in Blog
Author: Mikko Ylinen (Intel) The user/group ID related security settings in Pod's securityContext trigger a problem when users want to deploy containers that use accelerator devices (via Kubernetes Device Plugins) on Linux. In this blog post I talk …
Announcing the 2021 Steering Committee Election Results
Monday, November 08, 2021 in Blog
Author: Kaslin Fields The 2021 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2021. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are …
Use KPNG to Write Specialized kube-proxiers
Monday, October 18, 2021 in Blog
Author: Lars Ekman (Ericsson) The post will show you how to create a specialized service kube-proxy style network proxier using Kubernetes Proxy NG kpng without interfering with the existing kube-proxy. The kpng project aims at renewing the the …
Introducing ClusterClass and Managed Topologies in Cluster API
Friday, October 08, 2021 in Blog
Author: Fabrizio Pandini (VMware) The Cluster API community is happy to announce the implementation of ClusterClass and Managed Topologies, a new feature that will greatly simplify how you can provision, upgrade, and operate multiple Kubernetes …