Posts in 2026

  • Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek

    By Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Troy Connor | Friday, July 31, 2026 in Blog

    As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for the …

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  • How the controller-runtime Cache Actually Works, and Why Your Controller Does Not Crash the API Server

    By Andrei Kvapil (Ænix), Timofei Larkin (Ænix) | Wednesday, July 29, 2026 in Blog

    Caution:Some of the technical detail in this article is not accurate. We are reviewing it and preparing corrections. Until then, check what you read here against the controller-runtime documentation. Kubernetes has long been the default platform for …

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  • Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes

    By Victor David Effiok | Tuesday, July 14, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how many …

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  • Operating AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes: A Headlamp Plugin for Kubeflow

    By Alok Dangre (independent) | Monday, July 13, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads …

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  • Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: A Step-by-Step Guide

    By Vincent T. (Microsoft) | Monday, July 13, 2026 in Blog

    1. Before you start: know what is changing Kubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more clusters and …

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  • Announcing etcd v3.7.0

    By SIG Etcd Leads | Wednesday, July 08, 2026 in Blog

    This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, …

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  • Open source maintainership in the age of AI

    By Kevin Hannon (Red Hat) | Friday, June 26, 2026 in Blog

    AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or not fix them. The …

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  • Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp

    By Chayan Das (independent) | Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Blog

    Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs …

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  • Inspect Volcano workloads faster with Headlamp

    By Mahmoud Magdy (independent) | Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Blog

    Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the …

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  • See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative

    By Mudit Maheshwari (independent), Kahiro Okina (Craftsman Software, Inc.) | Thursday, June 25, 2026 in Blog

    Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so …

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