Posts in 2026

  • Kubernetes 1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)

    By Kevin Torres Martinez (Google) | Friday, May 01, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.36 introduces Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet's Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta

    By Narang Dixita Sohanlal (Google) | Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Blog

    Following the graduation of Pod-Level Resources to Beta in v1.34 and the General Availability (GA) of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in v1.35, the Kubernetes community is thrilled to announce that In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling has …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS

    By Qi Wang (Red Hat), Sohan Kunkerkar (Red Hat) | Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Blog

    On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers

    By Michael Aspinwall (Google) | Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in Blog

    Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Mutable Pod Resources for Suspended Jobs (beta)

    By Kevin Hannon (Red Hat) | Monday, April 27, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes v1.36 promotes the ability to modify container resource requests and limits in the pod template of a suspended Job to beta. First introduced as alpha in v1.35, this feature allows queue controllers and cluster administrators to adjust CPU, …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorization Graduates to GA

    By Vinayak Goyal (Google) | Friday, April 24, 2026 in Blog

    On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Auth and SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained kubelet API authorization to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.36! The KubeletFineGrainedAuthz feature gate was introduced as an opt-in …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes are finally GA

    By Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Amutable), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat) | Thursday, April 23, 2026 in Blog

    After several years of development, User Namespaces support in Kubernetes reached General Availability (GA) with the v1.36 release. This is a Linux-only feature. For those of us working on low level container runtimes and rootless technologies, this …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch

    By Jeffrey Ying (Google) | Thursday, April 23, 2026 in Blog

    As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, …

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  • SELinux Volume Label Changes goes GA (and likely implications in v1.37)

    By Jan Šafránek (Red Hat) Swathi Rao (Independent) | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 in Blog

    If you run Kubernetes on Linux with SELinux in enforcing mode, plan ahead: a future release (anticipated to be v1.37) is expected to turn the SELinuxMount feature gate on by default. This makes volume setup faster for most workloads, but it can break …

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  • Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA

    By Xing Yang (VMware by Broadcom) | Wednesday, April 22, 2026 in Blog

    Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume group snapshots …

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