P4Kube is an in-network load balancer for Kubernetes that uses P4 switches to route by live replica counts, cutting request times up to 50% vs software-only paths.
Kubernetes 1.33, codenamed 'Orion', delivers 47 enhancements with 15 features graduating to stable, focusing on intelligent autoscaling, cost efficiency, enhanced observability, Gateway API maturity, and advanced security features. This release ushers in a new era of intelligent orchestration with predictive scaling, unified metrics pipeline, and comprehensive network policy improvements.
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.
Kube Burner facilitates the creation, deletion, and patching of Kubernetes resources at scale, along with Prometheus metric collection and alerting for performance testing.
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.
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.
gVisor 2022 delivers improved performance, enhanced Kubernetes integration, and better observability for secure container sandboxing in Kubernetes.
CoreDNS 1.10 improves DNS reliability with enhanced caching, better error handling, and improved performance for Kubernetes service discovery.
gVisor 2021 delivers improved performance, enhanced Kubernetes integration, and better observability for secure container sandboxing in Kubernetes.
Performance comparison of major CNI plugins: Cilium, Calico, Antrea, AWS VPC CNI, and Flannel. Analyzing latency, throughput, resource usage, and scalability.