Posts in 2022

  • Kubernetes v1.26: Advancements in Kubernetes Traffic Engineering

    Friday, December 30, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Andrew Sy Kim (Google) Kubernetes v1.26 includes significant advancements in network traffic engineering with the graduation of two features (Service internal traffic policy support, and EndpointSlice terminating conditions) to GA, and a …

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  • Kubernetes 1.26: Pod Scheduling Readiness

    Monday, December 26, 2022 in Blog

    Author: Wei Huang (Apple), Abdullah Gharaibeh (Google) Kubernetes 1.26 introduced a new Pod feature: scheduling gates. In Kubernetes, scheduling gates are keys that tell the scheduler when a Pod is ready to be considered for scheduling. What problem …

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  • Kubernetes v1.26: GA Support for Kubelet Credential Providers

    Thursday, December 22, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Andrew Sy Kim (Google), Dixita Narang (Google) Kubernetes v1.26 introduced generally available (GA) support for kubelet credential provider plugins, offering an extensible plugin framework to dynamically fetch credentials for any container …

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  • Kubernetes 1.26: Device Manager graduates to GA

    Monday, December 19, 2022 in Blog

    Author: Swati Sehgal (Red Hat) The Device Plugin framework was introduced in the Kubernetes v1.8 release as a vendor independent framework to enable discovery, advertisement and allocation of external devices without modifying core Kubernetes. The …

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  • Kubernetes 1.26: Alpha API For Dynamic Resource Allocation

    Thursday, December 15, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Patrick Ohly (Intel), Kevin Klues (NVIDIA) Dynamic resource allocation is a new API for requesting resources. It is a generalization of the persistent volumes API for generic resources, making it possible to: access the same resource …

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  • Kubernetes 1.26: Windows HostProcess Containers Are Generally Available

    Tuesday, December 13, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Brandon Smith (Microsoft) and Mark Rossetti (Microsoft) The long-awaited day has arrived: HostProcess containers, the Windows equivalent to Linux privileged containers, has finally made it to GA in Kubernetes 1.26! What are HostProcess …

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  • Kubernetes 1.26: We're now signing our binary release artifacts!

    Monday, December 12, 2022 in Blog

    Author: Sascha Grunert The Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Release is proud to announce that we are digitally signing all release artifacts, and that this aspect of Kubernetes has now reached beta. Signing artifacts provides end users a …

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  • Kubernetes v1.26: Electrifying

    Friday, December 09, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Kubernetes 1.26 Release Team It's with immense joy that we announce the release of Kubernetes v1.26! This release includes a total of 37 enhancements: eleven of them are graduating to Stable, ten are graduating to Beta, and sixteen of them …

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  • Forensic container checkpointing in Kubernetes

    Monday, December 05, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Adrian Reber (Red Hat) Forensic container checkpointing is based on Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace (CRIU) and allows the creation of stateful copies of a running container without the container knowing that it is being checkpointed. The …

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  • Finding suspicious syscalls with the seccomp notifier

    Friday, December 02, 2022 in Blog

    Authors: Sascha Grunert Debugging software in production is one of the biggest challenges we have to face in our containerized environments. Being able to understand the impact of the available security options, especially when it comes to …

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