
Knative 1.8: Serverless on Kubernetes Evolution
Knative 1.8 enhances serverless capabilities with improved serving APIs, better eventing, and enhanced autoscaling for production serverless workloads.

Knative 1.8 enhances serverless capabilities with improved serving APIs, better eventing, and enhanced autoscaling for production serverless workloads.

Implementing zero trust security in Kubernetes through workload identity, mutual TLS, and network segmentation strategies.

gVisor 2022 delivers improved performance, enhanced Kubernetes integration, and better observability for secure container sandboxing in Kubernetes.

Thanos 0.28 enhances highly available Prometheus deployments with improved query performance, better storage integration, and enhanced multi-cluster support for large-scale observability.

Looking across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 events (spring and late year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts again: platform engineering hardens into an operating model, supply chain controls move from “security tooling” to enforceable workflows, eBPF becomes a practical substrate for networking and observability, standard interfaces (Gateway API, OpenTelemetry, Cluster API) start to matter more than individual products, and cost/efficiency turns into a platform design constraint.

KubeVirt 0.58 enhances virtual machine management with improved VM lifecycle, better storage integration, and enhanced networking for running VMs alongside containers.

Firecracker 1.5 enhances microVM capabilities with improved snapshot support, better performance, and enhanced security for serverless and edge workloads.

Helm 3.11 delivers OCI registry improvements, enhanced chart security, and better dependency management for Kubernetes package management.

Dapr 1.9 enhances the distributed application runtime with improved APIs, new components, and better Kubernetes integration for building resilient microservices.

Bottlerocket 1.12 enhances the container-optimized OS with improved security, better Kubernetes integration, and enhanced tooling for node management.