Posts in 2023
Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA
Friday, August 18, 2023 in Blog
Author: Roman Bednář (Red Hat) 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 …
Kubernetes 1.28: Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Moves to GA
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Xing Yang (VMware) and Ashutosh Kumar (Elastic) 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 …
pkgs.k8s.io: Introducing Kubernetes Community-Owned Package Repositories
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Blog
Author: Marko Mudrinić (Kubermatic) 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 …
Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes v1.28 Release Team 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 …
Spotlight on SIG ContribEx
Monday, August 14, 2023 in Blog
Author: Fyka Ansari 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 …
Spotlight on SIG CLI
Thursday, July 20, 2023 in Blog
Author: Arpit Agrawal 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 …
Confidential Kubernetes: Use Confidential Virtual Machines and Enclaves to improve your cluster security
Thursday, July 06, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Fabian Kammel (Edgeless Systems), Mikko Ylinen (Intel), Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (IBM) In this blog post, we will introduce the concept of Confidential Computing (CC) to improve any computing environment's security and privacy properties. …
Verifying Container Image Signatures Within CRI Runtimes
Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Blog
Author: Sascha Grunert 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 …
dl.k8s.io to adopt a Content Delivery Network
Friday, June 09, 2023 in Blog
Authors: Arnaud Meukam (VMware), Hannah Aubry (Fastly), Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) 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 …
Using OCI artifacts to distribute security profiles for seccomp, SELinux and AppArmor
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in Blog
Author: Sascha Grunert 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 …