Posts in 2023
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CRI-O is moving towards pkgs.k8s.io
By Sascha Grunert | Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Blog
The Kubernetes community recently announced that their legacy package repositories are frozen, and now they moved to introduced community-owned package repositories powered by the OpenBuildService (OBS). CRI-O has a long history of utilizing OBS for …
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Spotlight on SIG Architecture: Conformance
By Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Thursday, October 05, 2023 in Blog
This is the first interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that will cover the different subprojects. We start with the SIG Architecture: Conformance subproject In this SIG Architecture spotlight, we talked with Riaan Kleinhans (ii.nz), Lead …
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Announcing the 2023 Steering Committee Election Results
By Kaslin Fields | Monday, October 02, 2023 in Blog
The 2023 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2023. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes …
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Happy 7th Birthday kubeadm!
By Fabrizio Pandini (VMware) | Tuesday, September 26, 2023 in Blog
What a journey so far! Starting from the initial blog post “How we made Kubernetes insanely easy to install” in September 2016, followed by an exciting growth that lead to general availability / “Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster Creation with …
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kubeadm: Use etcd Learner to Join a Control Plane Node Safely
By Paco Xu (DaoCloud) | Monday, September 25, 2023 in Blog
The kubeadm tool now supports etcd learner mode, which allows you to enhance the resilience and stability of your Kubernetes clusters by leveraging the learner mode feature introduced in etcd version 3.4. This guide will walk you through using etcd …
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User Namespaces: Now Supports Running Stateful Pods in Alpha!
By Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Microsoft), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat), Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) | Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.25 introduced support for user namespaces for only stateless pods. Kubernetes 1.28 lifted that restriction, after some design changes were done in 1.27. The beauty of this feature is that: it is trivial to adopt (you just need to set a …
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Comparing Local Kubernetes Development Tools: Telepresence, Gefyra, and mirrord
By Eyal Bukchin (MetalBear) | Tuesday, September 12, 2023 in Blog
The Kubernetes development cycle is an evolving landscape with a myriad of tools seeking to streamline the process. Each tool has its unique approach, and the choice often comes down to individual project requirements, the team's expertise, and the …
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Kubernetes Legacy Package Repositories Will Be Frozen On September 13, 2023
By Bob Killen (Google), Chris Short (AWS), Jeremy Rickard (Microsoft), Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Thursday, August 31, 2023 in Blog
On August 15, 2023, the Kubernetes project announced the general availability of the community-owned package repositories for Debian and RPM packages available at pkgs.k8s.io. The new package repositories are replacement for the legacy Google-hosted …
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Gateway API v0.8.0: Introducing Service Mesh Support
By Flynn (Buoyant), John Howard (Google), Keith Mattix (Microsoft), Michael Beaumont (Kong), Mike Morris (independent), Rob Scott (Google) | Tuesday, August 29, 2023 in Blog
We are thrilled to announce the v0.8.0 release of Gateway API! With this release, Gateway API support for service mesh has reached Experimental status. We look forward to your feedback! We're especially delighted to announce that Kuma 2.3+, Linkerd …
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Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades
By Richa Banker (Google) | Monday, August 28, 2023 in Blog
This blog describes the mixed version proxy, a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.28. The mixed version proxy enables an HTTP request for a resource to be served by the correct API server in cases where there are multiple API servers at varied …