Posts in 2025

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

    By Tim Allclair (Google) | Monday, May 19, 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, is graduating to Beta and will be enabled by default in …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta!

    By Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) | Thursday, May 01, 2025 in Blog

    Image Volumes were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.31 release as part of KEP-4639. In Kubernetes v1.33, this feature graduates to beta. Please note that the feature is still disabled by default, because not all container …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: HorizontalPodAutoscaler Configurable Tolerance

    By Jean-Marc François (Google) | Tuesday, April 29, 2025 in Blog

    This post describes configurable tolerance for horizontal Pod autoscaling, a new alpha feature first available in Kubernetes 1.33. What is it? Horizontal Pod Autoscaling is a well-known Kubernetes feature that allows your workload to automatically …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: User Namespaces enabled by default!

    By Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Microsoft), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat), Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) | Friday, April 25, 2025 in Blog

    In Kubernetes v1.33 support for user namespaces is enabled by default. This means that, when the stack requirements are met, pods can opt-in to use user namespaces. To use the feature there is no need to enable any Kubernetes feature flag anymore! In …

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  • Continuing the transition from Endpoints to EndpointSlices

    By Dan Winship (Red Hat) | Thursday, April 24, 2025 in Blog

    Since the addition of EndpointSlices (KEP-752) as alpha in v1.15 and later GA in v1.21, the Endpoints API in Kubernetes has been gathering dust. New Service features like dual-stack networking and traffic distribution are only supported via the …

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  • Kubernetes v1.33: Octarine

    By Kubernetes v1.33 Release Team | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 in Blog

    Editors: Agustina Barbetta, Aakanksha Bhende, Udi Hofesh, Ryota Sawada, Sneha Yadav Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.33 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases …

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  • Updates to Container Lifecycle in Kubernetes v1.33

    By Sreeram Venkitesh (DigitalOcean) | Wednesday, April 23, 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 1.33: Storage Capacity Scoring of Nodes for Dynamic Provisioning (alpha)

    By Yuma Ogami (Cybozu) | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.33 introduces a new alpha feature called StorageCapacityScoring. This feature adds a scoring method for pod scheduling with the topology-aware volume provisioning. This feature eases to schedule pods on nodes with either the most or …

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  • Kubernetes Multicontainer Pods: An Overview

    By Agata Skorupka (The Scale Factory) | Tuesday, April 22, 2025 in Blog

    As cloud-native architectures continue to evolve, Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for deploying complex, distributed systems. One of the most powerful yet nuanced design patterns in this ecosystem is the sidecar pattern—a technique that …

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  • Introducing kube-scheduler-simulator

    By Kensei Nakada (Tetrate) | Monday, April 07, 2025 in Blog

    The Kubernetes Scheduler is a crucial control plane component that determines which node a Pod will run on. Thus, anyone utilizing Kubernetes relies on a scheduler. kube-scheduler-simulator is a simulator for the Kubernetes scheduler, that started as …

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