Posts in 2025

  • Kubernetes v1.34: VolumeAttributesClass for Volume Modification GA

    By Sunny Song (Google) | Monday, September 01, 2025 in Blog

    The VolumeAttributesClass API, which empowers users to dynamically modify volume attributes, has officially graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.34. This marks a significant milestone, providing a robust and stable way to tune your …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Use An Init Container To Define App Environment Variables

    By HirazawaUi | Monday, September 01, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes typically uses ConfigMaps and Secrets to set environment variables, which introduces additional API calls and complexity, For example, you need to separately manage the Pods of your workloads and their configurations, while ensuring …

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  • Tuning Linux Swap for Kubernetes: A Deep Dive

    By Ajay Sundar Karuppasamy (Google) | Tuesday, August 19, 2025 in Blog

    The Kubernetes NodeSwap feature, likely to graduate to stable in the upcoming Kubernetes v1.34 release, allows swap usage: a significant shift from the conventional practice of disabling swap for performance predictability. This article focuses …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Service Account Token Integration for Image Pulls Graduates to Beta

    By Anish Ramasekar (Microsoft) | Friday, August 15, 2025 in Blog

    The Kubernetes community continues to advance security best practices by reducing reliance on long-lived credentials. Following the successful alpha release in Kubernetes v1.33, Service Account Token Integration for Kubelet Credential Providers has …

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  • PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to Beta

    By Haowei Cai (Google) | Friday, August 08, 2025 in Blog

    As Kubernetes clusters grow in size and complexity, understanding the health and performance of individual nodes becomes increasingly critical. We are excited to announce that as of Kubernetes v1.34, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) Metrics has …

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  • Introducing Headlamp AI Assistant

    By Joaquim Rocha (Microsoft) | Thursday, August 07, 2025 in Blog

    This announcement originally appeared on the Headlamp blog. To simplify Kubernetes management and troubleshooting, we're thrilled to introduce Headlamp AI Assistant: a powerful new plugin for Headlamp that helps you understand and operate your …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34 Sneak Peek

    By Agustina Barbetta, Alejandro Josue Leon Bellido, Graziano Casto, Melony Qin, Dipesh Rawat | Monday, July 28, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.34 is coming at the end of August 2025. This release will not include any removal or deprecation, but it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle! Please …

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  • Post-Quantum Cryptography in Kubernetes

    By Fabian Kammel (ControlPlane) | Friday, July 18, 2025 in Blog

    The world of cryptography is on the cusp of a major shift with the advent of quantum computing. While powerful quantum computers are still largely theoretical for many applications, their potential to break current cryptographic standards is a …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Mutable CSI Node Allocatable Graduates to Beta

    By Eddie Torres (Amazon Web Services) | Monday, July 07, 2025 in Blog

    The functionality for CSI drivers to update information about attachable volume count on the nodes, first introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.33, has graduated to Beta in the Kubernetes v1.34 release! This marks a significant milestone in enhancing …

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  • Navigating Failures in Pods With Devices

    By Sergey Kanzhelev (Google) Mrunal Patel (RedHat) | Thursday, July 03, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration, but when it comes to handling specialized hardware like GPUs and other accelerators, things get a bit complicated. This blog post dives into the challenges of managing failure modes …

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