KubeVirt 0.35 enhances virtual machine management with improved performance, better storage integration, and enhanced networking capabilities for running VMs on Kubernetes.
Dapr 0.13 enhances the distributed application runtime with improved APIs, better Kubernetes integration, and enhanced observability for building microservices.
Comparing network observability capabilities across major CNI plugins: Cilium's Hubble, Calico, Antrea, AWS VPC CNI, Flannel, and Weave Net.
KubeEdge 1.7 enhances edge computing capabilities with improved device management, better cloud-edge synchronization, and enhanced reliability for edge deployments.
Strategies and tools for bootstrapping Kubernetes clusters in air-gapped or offline environments without direct internet access.
Contour 1.12 enhances the Envoy-powered ingress controller with improved Gateway API support, better performance, and enhanced security features for Kubernetes edge routing.
K3s 1.20 aligns with Kubernetes 1.20, providing a lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution optimized for edge computing, IoT, and resource-constrained environments.
Kubernetes 1.20 marked a significant update with Dockershim deprecation plans, CSI snapshot GA, node lifecycle improvements, and new troubleshooting tooling.
Submariner 0.11 enhances multi-cluster networking with improved connectivity, better service discovery, and enhanced security for connecting Kubernetes clusters.
Across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 events (Europe in spring, North America in late year), the cloud-native conversation tightened around one theme: reducing change risk. GitOps becomes an operating baseline, policy and supply-chain controls move closer to runtime, runtimes and isolation mature beyond Docker assumptions, and observability shifts toward shared semantics.