Posts in 2025

  • Spotlight on Policy Working Group

    By Arujjwal Negi | Tuesday, September 30, 2025 in Blog

    (Note: The Policy Working Group has completed its mission and is no longer active. This article reflects its work, accomplishments, and insights into how a working group operates.) In the complex world of Kubernetes, policies play a crucial role in …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health

    By John-Paul Sassine (Google) | Wednesday, September 17, 2025 in Blog

    The rise of AI/ML and other high-performance workloads has made specialized hardware like GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs a critical component of many Kubernetes clusters. However, as discussed in a previous blog post about navigating failures in Pods with …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: VolumeAttributesClass for Volume Modification GA

    By Sunny Song (Google) | Monday, September 08, 2025 in Blog

    The VolumeAttributesClass API, which empowers users to dynamically modify volume attributes, has officially graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.34. This marks a significant milestone, providing a robust and stable way to tune your …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Pod Replacement Policy for Jobs Goes GA

    By Dejan Zele Pejchev (G-Research) | Friday, September 05, 2025 in Blog

    In Kubernetes v1.34, the Pod replacement policy feature has reached general availability (GA). This blog post describes the Pod replacement policy feature and how to use it in your Jobs. About Pod Replacement Policy By default, the Job controller …

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  • PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to Beta

    By Haowei Cai (Google) | Thursday, September 04, 2025 in Blog

    As Kubernetes clusters grow in size and complexity, understanding the health and performance of individual nodes becomes increasingly critical. We are excited to announce that as of Kubernetes v1.34, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) Metrics has …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Service Account Token Integration for Image Pulls Graduates to Beta

    By Anish Ramasekar (Microsoft) | Wednesday, September 03, 2025 in Blog

    The Kubernetes community continues to advance security best practices by reducing reliance on long-lived credentials. Following the successful alpha release in Kubernetes v1.33, Service Account Token Integration for Kubelet Credential Providers has …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Introducing CPU Manager Static Policy Option for Uncore Cache Alignment

    By Charles Wong (AMD) | Tuesday, September 02, 2025 in Blog

    A new CPU Manager Static Policy Option called prefer-align-cpus-by-uncorecache was introduced in Kubernetes v1.32 as an alpha feature, and has graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.34. This CPU Manager Policy Option is designed to optimize performance …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: DRA has graduated to GA

    By The DRA team | Monday, September 01, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes 1.34 is here, and it has brought a huge wave of enhancements for Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)! This release marks a major milestone with many APIs in the resource.k8s.io group graduating to General Availability (GA), unlocking the …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Use An Init Container To Define App Environment Variables

    By HirazawaUi | Monday, September 01, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes typically uses ConfigMaps and Secrets to set environment variables, which introduces additional API calls and complexity, For example, you need to separately manage the Pods of your workloads and their configurations, while ensuring …

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  • Kubernetes v1.34: Finer-Grained Control Over Container Restarts

    By Yuan Wang | Friday, August 29, 2025 in Blog

    With the release of Kubernetes 1.34, a new alpha feature is introduced that gives you more granular control over container restarts within a Pod. This feature, named Container Restart Policy and Rules, allows you to specify a restart policy for each …

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