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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
16 сент., 12:26
Sharing the latest version of our curated digest showcasing prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!1. Argo Workflows, a workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes (a part of Argo, a CNCF Graduated project), released its 4.1, which added 31 new features. They cover OpenTelemetry traces for the controller and executor, Kubernetes DRA support, Pod-level requests and limits, initless Pods, streaming save path for artifact drivers, database authentication via AWS RDS IAM and Azure PostgreSQL Entra ID, MariaDB support, workflow-level executor plugin configuration, and more.2. Prometheus (a CNCF Graduated project) released 3.14.0 with PromQL duration expressions enabled by default and first_over_time promoted to stable, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute service discovery, and experimental support for encoding start timestamps in histograms.3. CrossplKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
15 сент., 05:46изменён
Talos gets a hypervisor, and Sidero Labs joins YardiBig news arrived for Talos Linux, a well-known Open Source operating system designed for Kubernetes. First, this project adds a hypervisor to run virtual machines. Interestingly, their solution is not based on KubeVirt. The authors say that requiring "Kubernetes just to run VMs" is an "unnecessary complexity", so they "brought native hypervisor capabilities into Talos Linux" (based on KVM). It will be Open Source. Talos Hypervisor launch (the alpha release and a public demo) will take place during TalosCon 2026, which will be held on October 15-16 in Amsterdam. Its general availability is expected in December.Secondly, Sidero Labs, the commercial company behind Talos, joins Yardi. It's a US-based software business focused on the real estate industry, with 10k+ employees across 40+ offices worldwide. As Sidero Labs outlines, it willKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
11 сент., 11:38
Karmada became a CNCF Graduated projectKarmada extends the standard Kubernetes API, allowing orchestration of applications across multiple clusters, clouds, and regions without modifying the apps themselves. Earlier this month, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to graduate Karmada, and the decision was formally announced on the CNCF blog now.Karmada originated in Huawei and was publicly announced at the Huawei Developer Conference 2021. It was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in September 2021 and promoted to the Incubating level in December 2023. Today, Karmada adopters include Alibaba Cloud, Bloomberg, Huawei, Trip.com, Vivo, and Wellhub.#news #cncfprojectsKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
7 сент., 12:50
We all know (and many of us use daily) k9s as a truly flagship CLI tool for Kubernetes. But what if someone were to reimagine it today?Meet sofka, which reimplements a well-known tool using one generic object pipeline (instead of separate structs for each resource type) and Rust. It performs better and offers lots of features you might need, including:- Powerful keyboard-based navigation with curated columns, custom views, drill-down navigation, horizontal scrolling, global fuzzy find, compact mode, and mouse support. - Powerful metrics and health support, covering Pod health, live CPU and memory values, workload health at a glance, evidence-based explanation for unhealthy resources, hierarchical Xray view, watch notifications, and more. - Extended diagnostic capabilities with incident bundles and snapshots capturing the current table view. - Embedded Helm and GitOps integration. - V
Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
4 сент., 16:26
k8gb v1.0.0k8gb, a Kubernetes Global Balancer, originated at Absa Group. More than six years have passed since the first whiteboard session in Johannesburg, conducted by Yury Tsarev and Bradley Andersen, both employed by this company at the time. In 2021, k8gb was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox, and earlier this year, as we mentioned recently, it became a CNCF Incubating project.Yesterday, right during its 100th community meeting, the k8gb maintainers pushed the v1.0.0 release. This update highlights a significant milestone in the project's maturity.#releases #cncfprojects #networkingKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
28 авг., 17:19
Happy to share our newest selection of interesting Kubernetes-related articles to consider for reading during this year's last summer weekend:1. "Nginx vs Caddy vs Traefik in 2026 — I Ran All Three Under Real Production Load" by Yusuf Seyitoğlu. A logistics client ran ingress-nginx on EKS for four years. Fine until it wasn’t supported. They asked me to compare Nginx (F5 NIC), Caddy, and Traefik on the same cluster before picking a path forward. Same twelve microservices. Same cert issuer. Same load tests. I ran each as the edge for six weeks.2. "From intent to enforcement: Lessons from operating Kubernetes controllers at scale" by Sri Saran Balaji Vellore Rajakumar and Jayanth Varavani, AWS. Kubernetes controllers are what make the platform’s declarative model real. They observe the state, reconcile toward the intent, and keep doing so as the system changes beneath them. At largerKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
27 авг., 09:46
Kubernetes v1.37 arrivedThe final release has happened and was officially announced in the project's blog tonight. Its codename is Garhwal, a Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India. As always, it comes with lots of new features, which are described in the formal announcement linked above and other articles we mentioned here before.#news #releases
Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
21 авг., 15:32изменён
Kubernetes Community Days in 2027 H1CNCF has announced the first batch of KCDs for 2027; they will take place in the first half of next year. The organisation also updated the event tier names that reflect how mature specific KCDs are. Currently, they are Tier 0 for first-time events with up to 200 attendees, Tier 1 for returning events with 350+ attendees, and Tier 2 for established events with up to 600 people.Here’s the list of KCDs 2027 H1, including their tiers: - KCD Panama; January; Tier 1 - KCD Pune, India; February; Tier 1 - KCD Vancouver, Canada; February; Tier 0 (new) - KCD Beijing, China; March; Independent - KCD Bangkok, Thailand; March; Tier 0 (new) - KCD Cairo, Egypt; April; Tier 0 (new) - KCD Texas, USA; April; Independent - KCD Guadalajara, Mexico; April; Independent - KCD Hyderabad, India; April; Tier 1 - KCD Valencia, Spain; May; Tier 0 (new) - KCD San FranciscoKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
20 авг., 12:25
Another kube-oidc-proxy fork is alive, featuring multi-issuer authentication to managed Kubernetes clusters.This new project, created by Rafal Pieniazek, implements a reverse proxy that enables authentication from multiple OIDC issuers at once to your managed K8s clusters, such as EKS, GKE, and AKS. To achieve this, the proxy sits in front of the API server, validates the bearer token against required OIDC issuers, and maps the token's claims to a Kubernetes identity. Then, impersonated headers for the mapped user are added, so that existing RBAC stays authoritative.P.S. This project originates from kube-oidc-proxy by Tremolo Security, which itself is an active fork of the eponymous project by Jetstack.▶️ GitHub repoLanguage: Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 17 ⭐️#tools #security
Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
17 авг., 16:11
Although GitHub isn't feeling well right now, here comes our newest digest of the prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!1. Rancher released v2.15.0, bringing general availability of native CAPI infrastructure providers, inherited namespace rules for GlobalRoles, restrictions for local UI authentication when EAP is configured, a new high-performance Workloads Overview UI view, and support for Kubernetes v1.36.2. Karpenter, a Kubernetes node autoscaler developed by the Kubernetes SIG, was updated to v1.14.0, which added the allocator for DRA, extended DRA support for partitionable devices and consumable capacity, a Balanced consolidation policy, per-offering resource overrides, and support for the CapacityBuffer API.3. Cilium (a CNCF Graduated project) released 1.20.0 with lots of improvements. They include support for TCPRoute and UDPRoute in the Gateway API,Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
14 авг., 14:46изменён
Headlamp GUI got a plugin for Argo CDA few days ago, Headlamp, a Kubernetes web UI developed by the Kubernetes SIG and recommended as a successor to the Kubernetes Dashboard, got another prominent plugin: for Argo CD. It adds native views for Argo CD resources in the dashboard. It already supports Applications and AppProjects, can show a GitOps summary (source/destination, revision, health, etc.), managed resources, sync policy and history, and more.However, it's still in alpha, which comes with numerous limitations (i.e. it can't fully replace the original Argo CD UI). Find more details and screenshots about this plugin on its 0.1.0-alpha release page.P.S. Last year, Headlamp also got a plugin for another well-known GitOps tool, Flux. It is still actively developed, with its most recent version 0.7.0 released just two weeks ago.#news #gitops #gui #releases
Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
12 авг., 14:38
Community has met KYAML, a strict subset of standard YAML for Kubernetes (KEP-5295), with mixed feelings. However, it will become stable in the upcoming Kubernetes v1.37 release. Thus, yesterday’s Kubernetes blog post on what KYAML is and how to use it may be helpful.TL;DR: via kubectl -o kyaml or yamlfmt (from Kubernetes itself or Google).#articlesKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
6 авг., 13:11
New free Kubernetes workshopKonrad Heimel announced the Kubernetes Practitioner Workshop, a GitHub repo that offers structured educational content for engineers looking to learn Kubernetes concepts and practice them. It comes with:- 28 topics (e.g., Containers, StatefulSet, The operator pattern, or Helm), each presented with 20-30 slides and accompanied with a practical lab requiring 15-30 minutes to complete; - two types of environments for labs: a specific namespace on a shared cluster or a local kind cluster; - downloadable PDFs provided as GitHub releases; - facilitator guide with additional notes on setting up the required environment and running this workshop.All content is free and available as Open Source (under the Zero-Clause BSD permissive license).#careerKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
3 авг., 10:54
What to expect in Kubernetes v1.37The next Kubernetes release, v1.37, is scheduled later this month, on August 26th. It will come with several important deprecations (e.g., static Pods won't longer reference Secrets/ConfigMaps, the ipvs mode will be removed from kube-proxy) and over 20 new features, including Recreate update strategy for StatefulSets, volume health monitor, default Pod sysctls in Kubelet, CompositePodGroup API, and others.Learn more about these upcoming changes from the first related articles published last week:- Kubernetes 1.37: Deep dive into new alpha features on Palark tech blog; - Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek on the official Kubernetes blog.#news #articles #releasesKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
31 июл., 11:56
Thought of running agents on Kubernetes more efficiently? Here’s a project from Google that you might find useful.Agent Substrate is an experimental system for running agents and similar workloads on Kubernetes at scale, providing specialised scheduling and controls to improve scalability and reduce latency. It relies on Kubernetes Pods and Pod autoscaling (but not K8s control plane) and manages the lifecycle of "actors" (agents or similar apps): creating and destroying them, assigning them to Pods, and routing traffic to them. It handles OCI containers at the kernel level via gVisor, so it can work with apps that are built on any stack.▶️ GitHub repoLanguage: Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 912 ⭐️#toolsKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
28 июл., 13:23
OpenTelemetry got a one-command Linux setupThe OpenTelemetry Packaging SIG introduced a ready-to-use opentelemetry package for Linux distributions that installs the OpenTelemetry Injector together with the OpenTelemetry SDKs and auto-instrumentation packages for various programming languages (Java, .NET, Node.js, and Python).It is now available as an APT repository (for Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives) and a YUM repository (for Fedora, RHEL, and derivatives). Find more details in this announcement or read the full instructions on GitHub.#news #observabilityKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
28 июл., 11:23
Kubeflow became a CNCF Graduated projectThe summer series of CNCF level-ups keeps going, and Kubeflow has just joined the list of the organisation’s most mature (i.e. Graduated) projects. The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted for this graduation last Friday.Kubeflow is a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes that serves as a foundation for K8s-based AI platforms. Its subprojects include Pipelines for end-to-end ML workflows, Trainer for distributed AI model training and LLM fine-tuning, Katib for AutoML, and a Kubernetes operator for Apache Spark.Kubeflow originated in Google, with its first public announcement in 2017. It was accepted into the CNCF as an Incubating project in July 2023. Today, its adopters include Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Cisco, Huawei, IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, and Tencent.#news #cncfprojects #aimlKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
23 июл., 14:44
Confidential Containers became a CNCF Incubating projectAnother level up has just happened in the CNCF, with its TOC accepting moving Confidential Containers to the Incubating level. This project enables confidential computing by leveraging hardware-based TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) to protect containers and data by encrypting data during computation.Confidential Containers started in 2021 by Red Hat, Intel, IBM, and other companies. It was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in March 2022. Today, this technology is used in IBM LinuxONE, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubermatic KubeOne, Alibaba Cloud, and several other solutions.#news #cncfprojects #securityKubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
21 июл., 16:22
Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies
21 июл., 10:34
KubeSchool by PortainerAs Neil Cresswell, CEO of Portainer, said on Reddit, one of his engineers recently asked him to help better understand Kubernetes architecture and components. Answering this request, he decided to go bigger and launched KubeSchool.It's an educational website featuring 15 chapters on Kubernetes basics for beginners. They cover the core ideas behind K8s, its main components, pluggable layers (CNI, CSI, CRDs, etc.), and production-ready recommendations.#career #articles
