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I'm excited to announce that native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics is graduating to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37! Native histograms (previously introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.36 under KEP-5808 ) bring high-resolution, low-cardinality observability to Kubernetes metrics. By adoptin…
Read at sourceAI workloads are changing what platform teams need from infrastructure. Provisioning GPUs and standing up a cluster no longer makes a platform “AI-ready.” Once training spans more than one node, the bottlenecks show up in places...
Read at sourceIn Kubernetes, resource allocation has historically been a static decision made during a Pod's initial scheduling and placement. With the graduation of the core in-Place Pod resize feature to General Availability in v1.35, application developers and cluster operators gained the powerful ability to dynamically adjust C…
Read at sourceScope This document describes three failure scenarios that separate having backups from being able to recover, and the guidance that follows from each. Every scenario is reproducible on a laptop from the lab repository above, and...
Read at sourceKubernetes 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 Node is draining , undergoing maintenance, or undergoing Graceful Node S…
Read at sourceThe question that stopped the meeting It was a routine cost review. The slide showed the month’s GPU spend, the biggest line on the whole infrastructure bill, and someone asked a five-word question: “Are we using...
Read at source“A sales guy writing code” used to be the lead-up to a joke. But now no one’s laughing. Designers used to sit meekly waiting for the high priests of code to make their designs real. Now...
Read at sourceAI/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 Workload-Aware Scheduling (WAS) journey. In this release, the core Workload and…
Read at sourceAccess control belongs on the same day-zero checklist as networking and storage. On most on-prem clusters, it never makes the list. The Identity Gap Managed cloud Kubernetes ships IAM or SSO integration out of the box....
Read at sourceYou’ve probably felt this one: GitHub Actions usage creeps up across your org, and your actual visibility into it doesn’t keep pace. Which workflows are slow? Which are flaky? How long are jobs sitting queued for...
Read at sourceMulti-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project reaches production maturity as global enterprises scale AI training and inference across hybrid infrastructure Key Highlights SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 –...
Read at sourceNew members including SoftBank Corp. and Crusoe join the cloud native community to help build cost-efficient, sovereign infrastructure SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 – September 8, 2026...
Read at sourceNew cloud native platform lifted average accelerator compute utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cut inference cost per 1 million tokens by more than 60% Key Highlights SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon +...
Read at sourceNew research finds China’s IIoT developers (48%) outpace the global average (42%) in cloud native adoption as AI infrastructure matures Key Highlights: SHANGHAI – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China —Sept. 8,...
Read at sourceKubernetes 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 namespace . This technique is also known as rootless mode . The work s…
Read at sourceKubernetes 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 features graduate to Beta or GA. A fresh batch of alpha features rounds out…
Read at sourceKubernetes 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 a workload to zero replicas, then bring it back when the metric chang…
Read at sourceI 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 reads The API server serves most list and watch requests from its in-m…
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