Ephemeral-Containers

Kubernetes 1.31: Ethereal Elephants — Performance, Observability, and Fine-Grained Control

Kubernetes 1.31: Ethereal Elephants — Performance, Observability, and Fine-Grained Control

Kubernetes 1.31, codenamed 'Ethereal Elephants', delivers 45 enhancements with 14 features graduating to stable, including Fine-Grained Admission Control (Alpha), CRI v1.2 performance optimizations, Gateway API GRPCRoute (GA), BackendTLSPolicy (Beta), Metrics Stability Framework completion, and enhanced security policies. This release emphasizes runtime performance, observability maturity, and policy precision for modern Kubernetes operations.

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Kubernetes 1.30: Uwubernetes – Refining Sidecars, APIs, and Developer Experience

Kubernetes 1.30: Uwubernetes – Refining Sidecars, APIs, and Developer Experience

Kubernetes 1.30, codenamed 'Uwubernetes', delivers 45 enhancements with 17 features graduating to stable, including Native Sidecar Containers (Beta), Gateway API GA, PodSchedulingReadiness (GA), JobSet API (Beta), enhanced security policies, and improved developer tooling. This release emphasizes developer experience, network traffic management maturity, and workload scheduling predictability.

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Kubernetes 1.29: Mandala — Extending Performance and Security

Kubernetes 1.29: Mandala — Extending Performance and Security

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.

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Kubernetes 1.26: Electrifying the Core – Security, Scalability, and Modern APIs

Kubernetes 1.26: Electrifying the Core – Security, Scalability, and Modern APIs

Kubernetes 1.26, codenamed 'Electrifying the Core,' graduates Storage Capacity Tracking and Ephemeral Containers to GA. This release completes CSI migration, introduces SeccompDefault for enhanced security, and modernizes APIs with v1beta1 removals and improved CRD validation.

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