Posts in 2026
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Kubernetes v1.35: Watch Based Route Reconciliation in the Cloud Controller Manager
By Lukas Metzner (Hetzner) | Thursday, January 08, 2026 in Blog
Up to and including Kubernetes v1.34, the route controller in Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) implementations built using the k8s.io/cloud-provider library reconciles routes at a fixed interval. This causes unnecessary API requests to the cloud …
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Kubernetes v1.35: A Better Way to Pass Service Account Tokens to CSI Drivers
By Anish Ramasekar (Microsoft) | Wednesday, January 07, 2026 in Blog
If you maintain a CSI driver that uses service account tokens, Kubernetes v1.35 brings a refinement you'll want to know about. Since the introduction of the TokenRequests feature, service account tokens requested by CSI drivers have been passed to …
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Kubernetes v1.35: New level of efficiency with in-place Pod restart
By Yuan Wang Giuseppe Tinti Tomio Sergey Kanzhelev | Monday, January 05, 2026 in Blog
The release of Kubernetes 1.35 introduces a powerful new feature that provides a much-requested capability: the ability to trigger a full, in-place restart of the Pod. This feature, Restart All Containers (alpha in 1.35), allows for an efficient way …
Posts in 2025
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Kubernetes 1.35: Enhanced Debugging with Versioned z-pages APIs
By Richa Banker, Han Kang | Wednesday, December 31, 2025 in Blog
Debugging Kubernetes control plane components can be challenging, especially when you need to quickly understand the runtime state of a component or verify its configuration. With Kubernetes 1.35, we're enhancing the z-pages debugging endpoints with …
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Kubernetes v1.35: Introducing Workload Aware Scheduling
By Maciej Skoczeń (Google), Dominik Marciński (Google) | Monday, December 29, 2025 in Blog
Scheduling large workloads is a much more complex and fragile operation than scheduling a single Pod, as it often requires considering all Pods together instead of scheduling each one independently. For example, when scheduling a machine learning …
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Kubernetes v1.35: Fine-grained Supplemental Groups Control Graduates to GA
By Shingo Omura (LY Corporation) | Tuesday, December 23, 2025 in Blog
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained supplemental groups control to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.35! The new Pod field, supplementalGroupsPolicy, was introduced as an opt-in alpha …
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Kubernetes v1.35: Kubelet Configuration Drop-in Directory Graduates to GA
By Sohan Kunkerkar (Red Hat) | Monday, December 22, 2025 in Blog
With the recent v1.35 release of Kubernetes, support for a kubelet configuration drop-in directory is generally available. The newly stable feature simplifies the management of kubelet configuration across large, heterogeneous clusters. With v1.35, …
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Avoiding Zombie Cluster Members When Upgrading to etcd v3.6
By Benjamin Wang VMware by Broadcom, Josh Berkus Red Hat | Sunday, December 21, 2025 in Blog
This article is a mirror of an original that was recently published to the official etcd blog. The key takeaway? Always upgrade to etcd v3.5.26 or later before moving to v3.6. This ensures your cluster is automatically repaired, and avoids zombie …
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Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable
By Natasha Sarkar (Google) | Friday, December 19, 2025 in Blog
This release marks a major step: more than 6 years after its initial conception, the In-Place Pod Resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.27, and graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.33, …
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Kubernetes v1.35: Job Managed By Goes GA
By Dejan Zele Pejchev (G-Research), Michał Woźniak (Google) | Thursday, December 18, 2025 in Blog
In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability. This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful …