Posts in 2022
Kubernetes 1.24: Prevent unauthorised volume mode conversion
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Blog
Author: Raunak Pradip Shah (Mirantis) Kubernetes v1.24 introduces a new alpha-level feature that prevents unauthorised users from modifying the volume mode of a PersistentVolumeClaim created from an existing VolumeSnapshot in the Kubernetes cluster. …
Kubernetes 1.24: Volume Populators Graduate to Beta
Monday, May 16, 2022 in Blog
Author: Ben Swartzlander (NetApp) The volume populators feature is now two releases old and entering beta! The AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate defaults to enabled in Kubernetes v1.24, which means that users can specify any custom resource as the …
Kubernetes 1.24: gRPC container probes in beta
Friday, May 13, 2022 in Blog
Author: Sergey Kanzhelev (Google) _Update: Since this article was posted, the feature was graduated to GA in v1.27 and doesn't require any feature gates to be enabled. With Kubernetes 1.24 the gRPC probes functionality entered beta and is available …
Kubernetes 1.24: Storage Capacity Tracking Now Generally Available
Friday, May 06, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Patrick Ohly (Intel) The v1.24 release of Kubernetes brings storage capacity tracking as a generally available feature. Problems we have solved As explained in more detail in the previous blog post about this feature, storage capacity …
Kubernetes 1.24: Volume Expansion Now A Stable Feature
Thursday, May 05, 2022 in Blog
Author: Hemant Kumar (Red Hat) Volume expansion was introduced as a alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.8 and it went beta in 1.11 and with Kubernetes 1.24 we are excited to announce general availability(GA) of volume expansion. This feature allows …
Kubernetes 1.24: Stargazer
Tuesday, May 03, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Kubernetes 1.24 Release Team We are excited to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.24, the first release of 2022! This release consists of 46 enhancements: fourteen enhancements have graduated to stable, fifteen enhancements are moving to …
Dockershim: The Historical Context
Tuesday, May 03, 2022 in Blog
Author: Kat Cosgrove Dockershim has been removed as of Kubernetes v1.24, and this is a positive move for the project. However, context is important for fully understanding something, be it socially or in software development, and this deserves a more …
Frontiers, fsGroups and frogs: the Kubernetes 1.23 release interview
Friday, April 29, 2022 in Blog
Author: Craig Box (Google) One of the highlights of hosting the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google is talking to the release managers for each new Kubernetes version. The release team is constantly refreshing. Many working their way from small …
Increasing the security bar in Ingress-NGINX v1.2.0
Thursday, April 28, 2022 in Blog
Authors: Ricardo Katz (VMware), James Strong (Chainguard) The Ingress may be one of the most targeted components of Kubernetes. An Ingress typically defines an HTTP reverse proxy, exposed to the Internet, containing multiple websites, and with some …
Kubernetes Removals and Deprecations In 1.24
Thursday, April 07, 2022 in Blog
Author: Mickey Boxell (Oracle) As Kubernetes evolves, features and APIs are regularly revisited and removed. New features may offer an alternative or improved approach to solving existing problems, motivating the team to remove the old approach. We …