Posts in 2023
Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA
By Roman Bednář (Red Hat) | Friday, August 18, 2023 in Blog
Announcing graduation to General Availability (GA) - Retroactive Default StorageClass Assignment in Kubernetes v1.28! Kubernetes SIG Storage team is thrilled to announce that the "Retroactive Default StorageClass Assignment" feature, …
Kubernetes 1.28: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to GA
By Xing Yang (VMware), Ashutosh Kumar (Elastic) | Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Blog
The Kubernetes Non-Graceful Node Shutdown feature is now GA in Kubernetes v1.28. It was introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.24, and promoted to beta in Kubernetes v1.26. This feature allows stateful workloads to restart on a different node if the …
pkgs.k8s.io: Introducing Kubernetes Community-Owned Package Repositories
By Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic) | Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Blog
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Release, I am very excited to introduce the Kubernetes community-owned software repositories for Debian and RPM packages: pkgs.k8s.io! The new package repositories are replacement for the Google-hosted package repositories …
Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes
By Kubernetes v1.28 Release Team | Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Blog
Announcing the release of Kubernetes v1.28 Planternetes, the second release of 2023! This release consists of 45 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 19 are entering Alpha, 14 have graduated to Beta, and 12 have graduated to Stable. Release Theme And …
Spotlight on SIG ContribEx
By Fyka Ansari | Monday, August 14, 2023 in Blog
Welcome to the world of Kubernetes and its vibrant contributor community! In this blog post, we'll be shining a spotlight on the Special Interest Group for Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx), an essential component of the Kubernetes project. SIG …
Spotlight on SIG CLI
By Arpit Agrawal | Thursday, July 20, 2023 in Blog
In the world of Kubernetes, managing containerized applications at scale requires powerful and efficient tools. The command-line interface (CLI) is an integral part of any developer or operator’s toolkit, offering a convenient and flexible way to …
Confidential Kubernetes: Use Confidential Virtual Machines and Enclaves to improve your cluster security
By Fabian Kammel (Edgeless Systems), Mikko Ylinen (Intel), Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (IBM) | Thursday, July 06, 2023 in Blog
In this blog post, we will introduce the concept of Confidential Computing (CC) to improve any computing environment's security and privacy properties. Further, we will show how the Cloud-Native ecosystem, particularly Kubernetes, can benefit from …
Verifying Container Image Signatures Within CRI Runtimes
By Sascha Grunert | Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Blog
The Kubernetes community has been signing their container image-based artifacts since release v1.24. While the graduation of the corresponding enhancement from alpha to beta in v1.26 introduced signatures for the binary artifacts, other projects …
dl.k8s.io to adopt a Content Delivery Network
By Arnaud Meukam (VMware), Hannah Aubry (Fastly), Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Friday, June 09, 2023 in Blog
We're happy to announce that dl.k8s.io, home of the official Kubernetes binaries, will soon be powered by Fastly. Fastly is known for its high-performance content delivery network (CDN) designed to deliver content quickly and reliably around the …
Using OCI artifacts to distribute security profiles for seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor
By Sascha Grunert | Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in Blog
The Security Profiles Operator (SPO) makes managing seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor profiles within Kubernetes easier than ever. It allows cluster administrators to define the profiles in a predefined custom resource YAML, which then gets distributed …