๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐.๐๐
๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐.๐๐ โ๐๐๐ซ๐ฎโ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ โ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐.
ใใซ (Haru) a Japanese sound carrying the meanings of ๆฅ (spring), ๆดใ (clear skies), and ้ฅใ (far-off horizons). A fitting name for a release that looks ahead, not behind. This release brings 70 enhancements ,18 graduating to Stable, 25 entering Beta, and 25 in Alpha contributed by 491 individuals across 106 companies. Kubernetes thatโs not just a version bump. Thatโs a community.
๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฏ๐.๐๐?
๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, taken seriously User Namespaces in pods and Mutating Admission Policies are now GA Cloudsmith two long-awaited wins for workload isolation and fine-grained admission control. The gitRepo volume plugin has also been removed to prevent a critical security issue involving code execution as root on the node. Palark No more legacy footguns.
โ๏ธ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐-๐ญ๐จ-๐ณ๐๐ซ๐จ, natively For years, scaling workloads to zero required third-party operators like KEDA or Knative. In 1.36, native scale-to-zero arrives out-of-the-box with the HPAScaleToZero feature gate graduating and enabled by default. MediumLess glue. More signal.
๐ค ๐๐/๐๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ become first-class citizens Workload-aware preemption for AI/ML jobs and deeper integration of Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) into the scheduler Palark are entering the picture. GPU scheduling is growing up.
๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: the Ingress-NGINX era ends Ingress-NGINX is retiring in favor of the more scalable Gateway API Cloud Native Now a shift thatโs been coming for a while. If you havenโt started your migration, now is the time.
๐ก ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ & ๐จ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ: sharded API streams for large-scale clusters Palark land as alpha a glimpse at how Kubernetes is preparing for the next order of magnitude.
๐ก ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐ค๐๐๐ฐ๐๐ฒ: Kubernetes 1.36 isnโt chasing hype. This release is less about adding power, and more about what works Medium making the platform safer, more predictable, and cheaper to operate at scale. Scale-to-zero, User Namespaces GA, DRA maturing, Ingress-NGINX sunset, gitRepo removed. Each one of these is a quiet signal: Kubernetes is becoming the boring infrastructure layer it always needed to be.
And in production? Boring is beautiful. ๐ธ
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