Posts in 2021

  • Kubernetes 1.22: Server Side Apply moves to GA

    By Jeffrey Ying (Google) Joe Betz (Google) | Friday, August 06, 2021 in Blog

    Server-side Apply (SSA) has been promoted to GA in the Kubernetes v1.22 release. The GA milestone means you can depend on the feature and its API, without fear of future backwards-incompatible changes. GA features are protected by the Kubernetes …

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  • Kubernetes 1.22: Reaching New Peaks

    By Kubernetes 1.22 Release Team | Wednesday, August 04, 2021 in Blog

    We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.22, the second release of 2021! This release consists of 53 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 24 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha. …

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  • Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview

    By Craig Box (Google) | Thursday, July 29, 2021 in Blog

    With Kubernetes 1.22 due out next week, now is a great time to look back on 1.21. The release team for that version was led by Nabarun Pal from VMware. Back in April I interviewed Nabarun on the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google; the latest in a …

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  • Updating NGINX-Ingress to use the stable Ingress API

    By James Strong, Ricardo Katz | Monday, July 26, 2021 in Blog

    With all Kubernetes APIs, there is a process to creating, maintaining, and ultimately deprecating them once they become GA. The networking.k8s.io API group is no different. The upcoming Kubernetes 1.22 release will remove several deprecated APIs that …

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  • Kubernetes Release Cadence Change: Here’s What You Need To Know

    By Celeste Horgan, Adolfo García Veytia, James Laverack, Jeremy Rickard | Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in Blog

    On April 23, 2021, the Release Team merged a Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) changing the Kubernetes release cycle from four releases a year (once a quarter) to three releases a year. This blog post provides a high level overview about what …

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  • Spotlight on SIG Usability

    By Kunal Kushwaha (Civo) | Thursday, July 15, 2021 in Blog

    Note:SIG Usability, which is featured in this Spotlight blog, has been deprecated and is no longer active. As a result, the links and information provided in this blog post may no longer be valid or relevant. Should there be renewed interest and …

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  • Kubernetes API and Feature Removals In 1.22: Here’s What You Need To Know

    By Krishna Kilari (Amazon Web Services), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory) | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Blog

    As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old APIs they replace are deprecated, and eventually removed. See Kubernetes API removals to read more about Kubernetes' policy on removing APIs. We …

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  • Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports

    By Divya Mohan | Monday, June 28, 2021 in Blog

    Given the growth and scale of the Kubernetes project, the existing reporting mechanisms were proving to be inadequate and challenging. Kubernetes is a large open source project. With over 100000 commits just to the main k/kubernetes repository, …

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  • Writing a Controller for Pod Labels

    By Arthur Busser (Padok) | Monday, June 21, 2021 in Blog

    Operators are proving to be an excellent solution to running stateful distributed applications in Kubernetes. Open source tools like the Operator SDK provide ways to build reliable and maintainable operators, making it easier to extend Kubernetes and …

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  • Using Finalizers to Control Deletion

    By Aaron Alpar (Kasten) | Friday, May 14, 2021 in Blog

    Deleting objects in Kubernetes can be challenging. You may think you’ve deleted something, only to find it still persists. While issuing a kubectl delete command and hoping for the best might work for day-to-day operations, understanding how …

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