Posts in 2026

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

    By Richa Banker (Google) | Monday, May 11, 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: 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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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch

    By Jeffrey Ying (Google) | Wednesday, May 06, 2026 in Blog

    As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA

    By Yongrui Lin | Tuesday, May 05, 2026 in Blog

    In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Admission Policies That Can't Be Deleted

    By Anish Ramasekar (Microsoft), Benjamin Elder (Google) | Monday, May 04, 2026 in Blog

    If you've ever tried to enforce a security policy across a fleet of Kubernetes clusters, you've probably run into a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. Your admission policies are API objects, which means they don't exist until someone creates them, …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)

    By Kevin Torres Martinez (Google) | Friday, May 01, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.36 introduces Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet's Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta

    By Narang Dixita Sohanlal (Google) | Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Blog

    Following the graduation of Pod-Level Resources to Beta in v1.34 and the General Availability (GA) of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in v1.35, the Kubernetes community is thrilled to announce that In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling has …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS

    By Qi Wang (Red Hat), Sohan Kunkerkar (Red Hat) | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Blog

    On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers

    By Michael Aspinwall (Google) | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in Blog

    Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect …

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