Posts in 2021
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Note:SIG Usability, which is featured in this Spotlight blog, has been deprecated and is no longer active.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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Kubernetes 1.21: Metrics Stability hits GA
By Han Kang (Google), Elana Hashman (Red Hat) | Friday, April 23, 2021 in Blog
Kubernetes 1.21 marks the graduation of the metrics stability framework and along with it, the first officially supported stable metrics. Not only do stable metrics come with supportability guarantees, the metrics stability framework brings escape …