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Posts in 2026

• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles

  By Taahir Ahmed | Friday, August 28, 2026 in Blog

  Pod Certificate / Cluster Trust Bundles Blog PostKubernetes 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 …

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• 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 …

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• 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 …

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• How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To

  By Kashish Verma | Tuesday, August 11, 2026 in Blog

  YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives you a lot of choices, and not …

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• Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard

  By Beka Modebadze (Google), Ricardo Katz (Red Hat) | Monday, August 03, 2026 in Blog

  The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in …

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