Posts in 2026
Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA
By The DRA team | Thursday, May 07, 2026 in Blog
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature graduations, …
Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch
By Jeffrey Ying (Google) | Wednesday, May 06, 2026 in Blog
As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, …
Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA
By Yongrui Lin (Google) | Tuesday, May 05, 2026 in Blog
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks …
Kubernetes v1.36: Admission Policies That Can't Be Deleted
By Anish Ramasekar (Microsoft), Benjamin Elder (Google) | Monday, May 04, 2026 in Blog
If you've ever tried to enforce a security policy across a fleet of Kubernetes clusters, you've probably run into a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. Your admission policies are API objects, which means they don't exist until someone creates them, …
Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)
By Kevin Torres Martinez (Google) | Friday, May 01, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.36 introduces Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet's Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers …
Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta
By Narang Dixita Sohanlal (Google) | Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Blog
Following the graduation of Pod-Level Resources to Beta in v1.34 and the General Availability (GA) of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in v1.35, the Kubernetes community is thrilled to announce that In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling has …
Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS
By Qi Wang (Red Hat), Sohan Kunkerkar (Red Hat) | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Blog
On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first …
Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers
By Michael Aspinwall (Google) | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in Blog
Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect …
Kubernetes v1.36: Mutable Pod Resources for Suspended Jobs (beta)
By Kevin Hannon (Red Hat) | Monday, April 27, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.36 promotes the ability to modify container resource requests and limits in the pod template of a suspended Job to beta. First introduced as alpha in v1.35, this feature allows queue controllers and cluster administrators to adjust CPU, …
Kubernetes v1.36: Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorization Graduates to GA
By Vinayak Goyal (Google) | Friday, April 24, 2026 in Blog
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Auth and SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained kubelet API authorization to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.36! The KubeletFineGrainedAuthz feature gate was introduced as an opt-in …