Posts in 2022
Kubernetes 1.24: Prevent unauthorised volume mode conversion
By Raunak Pradip Shah (Mirantis) | Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.24 introduces a new alpha-level feature that prevents unauthorised users from modifying the volume mode of a PersistentVolumeClaim created from an existing VolumeSnapshot in the Kubernetes cluster. The problem The Volume Mode determines …
Kubernetes 1.24: Volume Populators Graduate to Beta
By Ben Swartzlander (NetApp) | Monday, May 16, 2022 in Blog
The volume populators feature is now two releases old and entering beta! The AnyVolumeDataSource feature gate defaults to enabled in Kubernetes v1.24, which means that users can specify any custom resource as the data source of a PVC. An earlier blog …
Kubernetes 1.24: gRPC container probes in beta
By Sergey Kanzhelev (Google) | Friday, May 13, 2022 in Blog
_Update: Since this article was posted, the feature was graduated to GA in v1.27 and doesn't require any feature gates to be enabled. With Kubernetes 1.24 the gRPC probes functionality entered beta and is available by default. Now you can configure …
Kubernetes 1.24: Storage Capacity Tracking Now Generally Available
By Patrick Ohly (Intel) | Friday, May 06, 2022 in Blog
The v1.24 release of Kubernetes brings storage capacity tracking as a generally available feature. Problems we have solved As explained in more detail in the previous blog post about this feature, storage capacity tracking allows a CSI driver to …
Kubernetes 1.24: Volume Expansion Now A Stable Feature
By Hemant Kumar (Red Hat) | Thursday, May 05, 2022 in Blog
Volume expansion was introduced as a alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.8 and it went beta in 1.11 and with Kubernetes 1.24 we are excited to announce general availability(GA) of volume expansion. This feature allows Kubernetes users to simply edit their …
Kubernetes 1.24: Stargazer
By Kubernetes 1.24 Release Team | Tuesday, May 03, 2022 in Blog
We are excited to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.24, the first release of 2022! This release consists of 46 enhancements: fourteen enhancements have graduated to stable, fifteen enhancements are moving to beta, and thirteen enhancements are …
Dockershim: The Historical Context
By Kat Cosgrove | Tuesday, May 03, 2022 in Blog
Dockershim has been removed as of Kubernetes v1.24, and this is a positive move for the project. However, context is important for fully understanding something, be it socially or in software development, and this deserves a more in-depth review. …
Frontiers, fsGroups and frogs: the Kubernetes 1.23 release interview
By Craig Box (Google) | Friday, April 29, 2022 in Blog
One of the highlights of hosting the weekly Kubernetes Podcast from Google is talking to the release managers for each new Kubernetes version. The release team is constantly refreshing. Many working their way from small documentation fixes, step up …
Increasing the security bar in Ingress-NGINX v1.2.0
By Ricardo Katz (VMware), James Strong (Chainguard) | Thursday, April 28, 2022 in Blog
The Ingress may be one of the most targeted components of Kubernetes. An Ingress typically defines an HTTP reverse proxy, exposed to the Internet, containing multiple websites, and with some privileged access to Kubernetes API (such as to read …
Kubernetes Removals and Deprecations In 1.24
By Mickey Boxell (Oracle) | Thursday, April 07, 2022 in Blog
As Kubernetes evolves, features and APIs are regularly revisited and removed. New features may offer an alternative or improved approach to solving existing problems, motivating the team to remove the old approach. We want to make sure you are aware …