Posts in 2022
Kubernetes 1.26: Pod Scheduling Readiness
Monday, December 26, 2022 in Blog
Author: Wei Huang (Apple), Abdullah Gharaibeh (Google) Kubernetes 1.26 introduced a new Pod feature: scheduling gates. In Kubernetes, scheduling gates are keys that tell the scheduler when a Pod is ready to be considered for scheduling. What problem …
Kubernetes 1.26: Support for Passing Pod fsGroup to CSI Drivers At Mount Time
Friday, December 23, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Fabio Bertinatto (Red Hat), Hemant Kumar (Red Hat) Delegation of fsGroup to CSI drivers was first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes 1.22, and graduated to beta in Kubernetes 1.25. For Kubernetes 1.26, we are happy to announce that this …
Kubernetes v1.26: GA Support for Kubelet Credential Providers
Thursday, December 22, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Andrew Sy Kim (Google), Dixita Narang (Google) Kubernetes v1.26 introduced generally available (GA) support for kubelet credential provider plugins, offering an extensible plugin framework to dynamically fetch credentials for any container …
Kubernetes 1.26: Introducing Validating Admission Policies
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Joe Betz (Google), Cici Huang (Google) In Kubernetes 1.26, the 1st alpha release of validating admission policies is available! Validating admission policies use the Common Expression Language (CEL) to offer a declarative, in-process …
Kubernetes 1.26: Device Manager graduates to GA
Monday, December 19, 2022 in Blog
Author: Swati Sehgal (Red Hat) The Device Plugin framework was introduced in the Kubernetes v1.8 release as a vendor independent framework to enable discovery, advertisement and allocation of external devices without modifying core Kubernetes. The …
Kubernetes 1.26: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to Beta
Friday, December 16, 2022 in Blog
Author: Xing Yang (VMware), Ashutosh Kumar (VMware) Kubernetes v1.24 introduced an alpha quality implementation of improvements for handling a non-graceful node shutdown. In Kubernetes v1.26, this feature moves to beta. This feature allows stateful …
Kubernetes 1.26: Alpha API For Dynamic Resource Allocation
Thursday, December 15, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Patrick Ohly (Intel), Kevin Klues (NVIDIA) Dynamic resource allocation is a new API for requesting resources. It is a generalization of the persistent volumes API for generic resources, making it possible to: access the same resource …
Kubernetes 1.26: Windows HostProcess Containers Are Generally Available
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Brandon Smith (Microsoft) and Mark Rossetti (Microsoft) The long-awaited day has arrived: HostProcess containers, the Windows equivalent to Linux privileged containers, has finally made it to GA in Kubernetes 1.26! What are HostProcess …
Kubernetes 1.26: We're now signing our binary release artifacts!
Monday, December 12, 2022 in Blog
Author: Sascha Grunert The Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Release is proud to announce that we are digitally signing all release artifacts, and that this aspect of Kubernetes has now reached beta. Signing artifacts provides end users a …
Kubernetes v1.26: Electrifying
Friday, December 09, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.26 Release Team It's with immense joy that we announce the release of Kubernetes v1.26! This release includes a total of 37 enhancements: eleven of them are graduating to Stable, ten are graduating to Beta, and sixteen of them …