
Kubernetes Gateway API v1: Modern Ingress Standard Production Ready
Kubernetes Gateway API v1 reaches stable status, delivering modern ingress standard with enhanced features and broad ecosystem support.

Kubernetes Gateway API v1 reaches stable status, delivering modern ingress standard with enhanced features and broad ecosystem support.

Keptn 0.20 delivers application lifecycle improvements, observability enhancements, and integration improvements for cloud-native applications.

Kubernetes 1.29, codenamed 'Mandala,' delivers 49 enhancements with 18 features graduating to stable, including Job lifecycle improvements, NodeLogQuery API (Alpha), KMS v2 as default for secret encryption, PodSecurity Admission enhancements, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 production readiness, and completed CSI migration. This release emphasizes performance optimization, security hardening, and improved observability for large-scale deployments.

Akri 0.7 delivers edge device discovery improvements, Kubernetes integration enhancements, and protocol support expansion for edge devices.

Thanos 0.32 delivers query performance improvements, storage integration enhancements, and multi-cluster support for highly available Prometheus.

Litmus 2.13 delivers chaos experiment improvements, GitOps integration enhancements, and observability features for chaos engineering.

KubeRay 1.0 provides Kubernetes operator for Ray distributed computing framework, enabling scalable ML workloads and distributed computing on Kubernetes.

Loki 2.9 delivers query performance improvements, storage efficiency enhancements, and better Kubernetes integration for log aggregation.

Across the two KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 events (spring and late year), the ecosystem’s center of gravity shifts again: platform engineering turns into platform governance, standard APIs and semantic conventions matter more than individual products, and observability/security conversations focus on operating costs—data volume, policy lifecycle, and identity—rather than novelty.

OpenTelemetry 1.20 delivers SDK improvements, collector enhancements, and better Kubernetes integration for comprehensive observability.