Posts in 2026

  • From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition

    By Will Case (Headlamp) | Monday, June 01, 2026 in Blog

    For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped …

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  • Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs

    By Pushkar Joglekar (Broadcom / SIG Security), Tabitha Sable (Datadog / K8s Security Response Committee / SIG Security) | Tuesday, May 26, 2026 in Blog

    The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort …

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  • Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0

    By SIG-etcd Leads | Wednesday, May 20, 2026 in Blog

    SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager

    By Lukas Metzner (Hetzner) | Friday, May 15, 2026 in Blog

    This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta

    By Richa Banker (Google) | Friday, May 15, 2026 in Blog

    Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs

    By Adrian Moisey (independent), Dan Winship (Red Hat), | Thursday, May 14, 2026 in Blog

    The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and in any situation where that is …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling

    By Maciej Skoczeń (Google), Antoni Zawodny (Google), Matt Matejczyk (Google), Bartosz Rejman (Google), Jon Huhn (Microsoft), Maciej Wyrzuc (Google), Heba Elayoty (Microsoft) | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 in Blog

    AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to GA

    By Maria Fernanda Romano Silva (Google Cloud) | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 in Blog

    Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage. Unlike traditional utilization …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA

    By Xing Yang (VMware by Broadcom) | Friday, May 08, 2026 in Blog

    Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume group snapshots …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA

    By The DRA team | Thursday, May 07, 2026 in Blog

    Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature graduations, …

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