Posts in 2021
New in Kubernetes v1.22: alpha support for using swap memory
Monday, August 09, 2021 in Blog
Author: Elana Hashman (Red Hat) 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 …
Kubernetes 1.22: CSI Windows Support (with CSI Proxy) reaches GA
Monday, August 09, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Mauricio Poppe (Google), Jing Xu (Google), and Deep Debroy (Apple) 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 …
Kubernetes 1.22: Server Side Apply moves to GA
Friday, August 06, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Jeffrey Ying, Google & Joe Betz, Google 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 …
Kubernetes 1.22: Reaching New Peaks
Wednesday, August 04, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.22 Release Team 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 …
Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview
Thursday, July 29, 2021 in Blog
Author: Craig Box (Google) 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 …
Updating NGINX-Ingress to use the stable Ingress API
Monday, July 26, 2021 in Blog
Authors: James Strong, Ricardo Katz 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 …
Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Celeste Horgan, Adolfo García Veytia, James Laverack, Jeremy Rickard 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 …
Spotlight on SIG Usability
Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Blog
Author: Kunal Kushwaha, Civo Introduction Are you interested in learning about what SIG Usability does and how you can get involved? Well, you're at the right place. SIG Usability is all about making Kubernetes more accessible to new folks, and its …
Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know
Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) 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 …
Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports
Monday, June 28, 2021 in Blog
Authors: Divya Mohan Given the growth and scale of the Kubernetes project, the existing reporting mechanisms were proving to be inadequate and challenging. Kubernetes is a large open source project. With over 100000 commits just to the main …