Posts in 2026
Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions
By Ryan Hallisey (NVIDIA) | Wednesday, September 09, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes has many ways to describe what is happening on a Node. Readiness, taints, Pod state, labels, annotations, and provider-specific APIs each expose part of the picture. What has been missing is a shared, Kubernetes-owned way to say that a …
Kubernetes v1.37: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling
By Antoni Zawodny (Google), Bartosz Rejman (Google), Heba Elayoty (Microsoft), Jon Huhn (Microsoft), Maciej Skoczeń (Google), Maciej Wyrzuc (Google), Matt Matejczyk (Google) | Tuesday, September 08, 2026 in Blog
AI/ML and complex batch workloads continue to push the boundaries of Kubernetes scheduling. Following the foundational workload-centric enhancements introduced in previous releases, Kubernetes v1.37 delivers the next major milestone in the …
Kubernetes v1.37: KubeletInUserNamespace (aka Rootless mode) Graduates to Beta
By Akihiro Suda (NTT) | Friday, September 04, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. With this feature enabled, all of the node components (kubelet, CRI and OCI runtimes, CNI plugins, and kube-proxy) can run as a non-root user on the host, using a Linux user …
Kubernetes v1.37: DRA Updates
By Kashish Verma | Thursday, September 03, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes 1.37 is here and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) keeps pushing past where it started! This release brings DRA Extended Resource support to GA, a milestone the team has been building toward for three straight releases. Several more …
Kubernetes v1.37: Scale Workloads to Zero with HorizontalPodAutoscaler
By Johannes Würbach | Wednesday, September 02, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.37 includes API support for horizontal autoscaling of workloads down to zero replicas. This feature is now Beta and enabled by default. A HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) that uses a suitable object metric or external metric can now scale …
Kubernetes v1.37: etcd RangeStream Cuts Memory Use on Large List Reads
By Jeffrey Ying (Google) | Tuesday, September 01, 2026 in Blog
I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. The cost of large …
Kubernetes v1.37: Storage Version Migration Enabled by Default
By Michael Aspinwall (Google) | Monday, August 31, 2026 in Blog
I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API (storagemigration.k8s.io/v1) and control plane …
Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles
By Taahir Ahmed | Friday, August 28, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes brings a wealth of features that make it easy to run your production workloads securely and reliably. While aspects like scheduling, health checks and resource limits are probably at the front of your mind, one other important feature of …
Kubernetes v1.37: Metrics API graduates to stable
By ChengHao Yang | Thursday, August 27, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the metrics.k8s.io API to stable (v1). This API provides CPU and memory usage for nodes and Pods, and is the API behind commands such as kubectl top and resource-metrics-based autoscaling. For cluster operators and …
Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal
By Kubernetes v1.37 Release Team | Wednesday, August 26, 2026 in Blog
Editors: Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Troy Connor Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.37 introduces new Stable, Beta, and Alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality …