Posts in 2025

  • Enhancing Kubernetes Event Management with Custom Aggregation

    By Rez Moss | Tuesday, June 10, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes Events provide crucial insights into cluster operations, but as clusters grow, managing and analyzing these events becomes increasingly challenging. This blog post explores how to build custom event aggregation systems that help …

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  • Introducing Gateway API Inference Extension

    By Daneyon Hansen (Solo.io), Kaushik Mitra (Google), Jiaxin Shan (Bytedance), Kellen Swain (Google) | Thursday, June 05, 2025 in Blog

    Modern generative AI and large language model (LLM) services create unique traffic-routing challenges on Kubernetes. Unlike typical short-lived, stateless web requests, LLM inference sessions are often long-running, resource-intensive, and partially …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta

    By Tim Allclair (Google) | Friday, May 16, 2025 in Blog

    On behalf of the Kubernetes project, I am excited to announce that the in-place Pod resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.27, has graduated to Beta and will be enabled by default in …

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  • Announcing etcd v3.6.0

    By Benjamin Wang (VMware by Broadcom) | Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Blog

    This announcement originally appeared on the etcd blog. Today, we are releasing etcd v3.6.0, the first minor release since etcd v3.5.0 on June 15, 2021. This release introduces several new features, makes significant progress on long-standing efforts …

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  • Kubernetes 1.33: Job's SuccessPolicy Goes GA

    Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Blog

    On behalf of the Kubernetes project, I'm pleased to announce that Job success policy has graduated to General Availability (GA) as part of the v1.33 release. About Job's Success Policy In batch workloads, you might want to use leader-follower …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: Updates to Container Lifecycle

    By Sreeram Venkitesh (DigitalOcean) | Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.33 introduces a few updates to the lifecycle of containers. The Sleep action for container lifecycle hooks now supports a zero sleep duration (feature enabled by default). There is also alpha support for customizing the stop signal sent …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: Job's Backoff Limit Per Index Goes GA

    By Michał Woźniak (Google) | Tuesday, May 13, 2025 in Blog

    In Kubernetes v1.33, the Backoff Limit Per Index feature reaches general availability (GA). This blog describes the Backoff Limit Per Index feature and its benefits. About backoff limit per index When you run workloads on Kubernetes, you must …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: Image Pull Policy the way you always thought it worked!

    By Ben Petersen (Microsoft), Stanislav Láznička (Microsoft) | Monday, May 12, 2025 in Blog

    Image Pull Policy the way you always thought it worked! Some things in Kubernetes are surprising, and the way imagePullPolicy behaves might be one of them. Given Kubernetes is all about running pods, it may be peculiar to learn that there has been a …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: Streaming List responses

    By Marek Siarkowicz (Google), Wei Fu (Microsoft) | Friday, May 09, 2025 in Blog

    Managing Kubernetes cluster stability becomes increasingly critical as your infrastructure grows. One of the most challenging aspects of operating large-scale clusters has been handling List requests that fetch substantial datasets - a common …

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  • Kubernetes 1.33: Volume Populators Graduate to GA

    By Danna Wang (Google) Sunny Song (Google) | Thursday, May 08, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes volume populators are now generally available (GA)! The AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate is treated as always enabled for Kubernetes v1.33, which means that users can specify any appropriate custom resource as the data source of a …

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