
kubespray Evolution: Ansible-Based Production Clusters
kubespray's maturity as an Ansible-based tool for deploying highly customizable Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and cloud infrastructure.

kubespray's maturity as an Ansible-based tool for deploying highly customizable Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and cloud infrastructure.

Kubewarden 1.0 delivers a WebAssembly-based policy engine for Kubernetes, enabling fast, secure policy evaluation with language flexibility and low overhead.

Dapr 1.0 achieves General Availability and joins CNCF as an incubating project, providing a portable runtime for building microservices with built-in APIs for state, pub/sub, and service invocation.

Thanos 0.20 enhances highly available Prometheus deployments with improved query performance, better storage integration, and enhanced multi-cluster support for large-scale observability.

Prometheus 2.30 introduces native histograms, improved query performance, and enhanced remote write capabilities for large-scale Kubernetes monitoring.

Looking across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021 events (mid-year and late-year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts from adding layers to reducing uncertainty: software supply chain becomes a platform concern, eBPF and policy systems mature into production tools, traffic APIs begin to standardize, and platform engineering solidifies into an internal product discipline.

Cluster API v1beta1 marks production readiness with API stability, ClusterClass for template-based cluster definitions, and managed topologies for declarative cluster lifecycle management.

Chaos Mesh 2.0 delivers a powerful chaos engineering platform with enhanced experiment types, improved observability, and better integration with Kubernetes workflows.

Keptn 0.12 enhances application lifecycle management with improved automation, better observability, and enhanced GitOps integration for cloud-native applications.

Prometheus 2.28 introduces improved query performance, enhanced remote write capabilities, and better resource efficiency for large-scale Kubernetes monitoring.