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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

Interested in seeing the contents of your container images without running them? Check out this new tool.

cek (container exploration kit) is a CLI tool for exploring the OCI images filesystem. Unlike Skopeo, it works with the container itself (rather than the container registry), i.e. it can read images directly from Docker, Podman, or containerd in addition to pulling them from remote registries. cek allows you to:

- list files in your image and display the directory tree structure;
- read file contents;
- inspect image metadata;
- export images to tar files.

▶️ https://github.com/bschaatsbergen/cek
💬 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1q34dlv/list_inspect_and_explore_oci_container_images/

Language: Go | License: MIT | 261 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

NVIDIA introduced AI Cluster Runtime (AICR)

Yesterday, the company released its recipes for GPU-accelerated Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premises AI factories. These recipes are “version-locked configurations for specific environments” — the combinations of drivers, runtimes, operators, kernel modules, and system settings for AI workloads that have been validated by NVIDIA. They include specific components, their versions, constraints, and the configuration values for each environment.

You can find more details in https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/validate-kubernetes-for-gpu-infrastructure-with-layered-reproducible-recipes/ and the https://github.com/nvidia/aicr on GitHub.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

New Kubernetes working group: AI Gateway

The “AI Gateway” term refers to network gateway infrastructure, such as proxy servers and load balancers, that implements the Gateway API specification with enhanced capabilities for AI workloads. The https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2026/03/09/announcing-ai-gateway-wg/ AI Gateway WG will create declarative APIs, standards, and guidance for AI workload networking in Kubernetes.

P. S. This announcement came shortly after the Kubernetes WG Serving.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

AWS Load Balancer Controller now supports Gateway API

Previously, AWS Load Balancer Controller relied on Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer as Ingress and Service in Kubernetes environments. Now, you https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/aws-load-balancer-controller-adds-general-availability-support-for-kubernetes-gateway-api/ the Gateway API.

P. S. According to https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/5515, Azure Kubernetes Service is also expected to introduce Gateway API support for App Routing in March. Google Cloud https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/gateway-api using its Gateway API implementation in the GKE Gateway controller to expose apps in Kubernetes for a while.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

KCDs for 2026 H2 are announced

The list of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) events for the second half of 2026 https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/02/25/announcing-h2-2026-kcds/. Here's what we can expect:

- KCD Vietnam; July; new
- KCD Melbourne, Australia; August; new
- KCD San Francisco Bay Area, USA; September; Tier 1
- KCD Washington DC, USA; September; Tier 1
- KCD Gujarat, India; September; new
- KCD Sao Paulo, Brazil; September; Tier 2
- KCD Sofia, Bulgaria; September; Tier 2
- KCD Buenos Aires, Argentina; October; Tier 1
- KCD UK; October; Tier 2
- KCD Bandung, Indonesia; October; Tier 1
- KCD Nigeria; October; Tier 1
- KCD Budapest, Hungary; November; Tier 1
- KCD Porto, Portugal; November; Tier 2
- KCD Hangzhou, China; November; Tier 1
- KCD Florida, USA; December; new
- KCD Suisse-Romade, Switzerland; December; Tier 1
- KCD Aix-en-Provence, France; December; new

First-time events imply up to 200 attendees, Tier 1 are for 350+, and Tier 2 are for up to 600. In our , you can also find the list of the ongoing KCDs for 2026 H1.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

Sharing our new digest of the prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!

Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine (a CNCF Incubating project), released https://kyverno.io/blog/2026/02/02/announcing-kyverno-release-1.17/ that declares its CEL policy engine stable. These CEL-based policies got numerous new function libraries for YAML/JSON parsing, X509 decoding, and more. The release also introduced support for Cosign v3, and namespaced mutation and generation.

OpenEverest, a Cloud Native database platform, released https://github.com/openeverest/openeverest/releases/tag/v1.13.0, featuring a Pod Logs Viewer displaying real-time logs from database Pods directly in the UI, dynamic value injection in LoadBalancerConfig to create reusable configurations, and support for Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator v1.19.0.

Backstage, a framework for building developer portals (a CNCF Incubating project), reached https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.48.0, bringing experimental refresh token support, lots of updates in the new frontend system (new navigation system, home plugin, plugin titles and icons), new UI components, experimental catalog generic SCM event handling, and module federation enabled by default.

Crossplane (a CNCF Graduated project) made a regular quarterly release, https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/releases/tag/v2.2.0. It brought a pipeline inspector (alpha), ImageConfig configuration for DeploymentRuntimeConfig used for packages, server-side apply support in the MRD controller when updating CRDs, support for composition functions to request OpenAPI schemas, and an enhanced crossplane beta trace command.

Dex, an OpenID Connect identity and OAuth 2.0 provider (a CNCF Sandbox project), was updated to https://github.com/dexidp/dex/releases/tag/v2.45.0, adding PKCE support in the OIDC connector, a Vault signer for JWT, and enhanced static passwords.

Flux (a CNCF Graduated project) released https://fluxcd.io/blog/2026/02/flux-v2.8.0/, featuring Helm v4 support, faster recovery from failed deployments, CEL-based health check expressions for Helm releases, ephemeral preview environments from GitHub PRs and GitLab MRs, and support for Cosign v3.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

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Watching your Kubernetes Pods in real-time 3D space sounds like a deal for Friday, doesn’t it? 🙃

Observatory is a visualisation dashboard that makes this possible. Originally built for K3s, it works with other Kubernetes distros as well, allowing you to watch your containers like never before. What it offers:

- Displaying your Kubernetes nodes and Pods in the 3D space where you can travel;
- Showing sidecars as orbiting moons for multi-container Pods;
- Providing the current and continuously updated state of Pods (running, pending, etc.) as well as their memory and CPU usage visualised as size and colours.

▶️ https://github.com/craigderington/k3s-observatory/
💬 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1peyf1j/k3s_observatory_live_3d_kubernetes_visualization/

Language: Go, TypeScript | License: GPL v3 | 28 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

Sharing our latest digest of the prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!

Longhorn, a Cloud Native distributed storage for Kubernetes (a CNCF Incubating project), released https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/releases/tag/v1.11.0, which brought its V2 Data Engine to the Technical Preview. Other updates include balance-aware algorithm disk selection for replica scheduling, active monitoring for node disk health, and support for Kubernetes RWOP (ReadWriteOncePod) and StorageClass allowedTopologies.

Argo CD (a CNCF Graduated project) reached https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases/tag/v3.3.0. It https://blog.argoproj.io/argo-cd-3-3-release-candidate-00e99f7b7daa PreDelete hooks, automatic background refresh of OIDC tokens, support for resource names in clusterResourceWhitelist, shallow cloning for repositories, and KEDA support (pausing and resuming KEDA resources from the Argo CD UI and ScaledJob health checks).

Headlamp, a Kubernetes web UI developed by the Kubernetes SIG, was updated to https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/headlamp/releases/tag/v0.40.0 and got configurable keyboard shortcuts, HTTPRoute support for Gateway API, icon and colour configuration for clusters, saving selected namespaces per cluster, support for a8r.io service metadata in service views, and more.

Cilium (a CNCF Graduated project) released https://github.com/cilium/cilium/releases/tag/v1.19.0 with lots of new features. They include multi-level subdomain matches in DNS policies, support for VRRP and IGMP protocols in host firewall rules, strict encryption modes for both IPsec and WireGuard, enrolling namespaces into Ztunnel, support for GRPCRoute in GAMMA, TLS/mTLS support for Prometheus metrics, and CRD auto-installation for Multi-Cluster Services.

KEDA (a CNCF Graduated project) was updated to https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.19.0, introducing a new Kubernetes Resource Scaler, file-based authentication support for ClusterTriggerAuthentication, and other improvements.

Karpenter, a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler developed by the Kubernetes SIG, unveiled its https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/karpenter/releases/tag/v1.9.0, adding Gte and Lte operators for requirements, a NodePool cost metric, and consolidation pipeline logging.

Istio (a CNCF Graduated project) https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/tag/1.29.0 was released with DNS capture and iptables reconciliation enabled by default for ambient workloads, CRL (Certificate Revocation List) support in Ztunnel, debug endpoint authorisation enabled by default, alpha support for wildcard hosts in ServiceEntry resources with DYNAMIC_DNS resolution, HTTP compression for Envoy metrics, pilot resource filtering capabilities, and many other changes.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

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CNCF project velocity 2025 report

Key takeaways from the latest CNCF project velocity https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/02/09/what-cncf-project-velocity-in-2025-reveals-about-cloud-natives-future/:
Kubernetes continues to lead with the largest contributor base.
Backstage has more than doubled its contributions since 2024.
OpenTelemetry saw a 39% rise in commits and 35% rise in a contributor base.

Top 10 CNCF projects by their velocity in 2025:

Kubernetes
Cilium
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Argo
Meshery
Envoy
Backstage
Keycloak
Kubeflow

https://github.com/cncf/velocity has all the data, and on a previous velocity report published in July 2025.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 29, 2026, 10:34 AM

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This new UI aims to ensure “modern Kubernetes visibility” by providing comprehensive information on your cluster and its workloads, along with several management features.

Radar is a dashboard that is intended to be “blazing fast”, displays real-time information, and runs as a single binary, not requiring to be installed on a cluster. It comes with:

- General cluster overview, including the stats for existing resources, resource utilisation, and unhealthy workloads.
- Detailed interactive graphs for Kubernetes resources with their full hierarchy and an image filesystem viewer for Pods.
- Live network traffic visualisation (via Hubble or Caretta).
- Timeline of Kubernetes events and resource changes.
- Management for Helm releases and GitOps (Argo CD and Flux) resources.
- Automatic discovery of CRDs and integrations for Gateway API, Karpenter, KEDA, cert-manager, Prometheus Operator, and Trivy.
- MCP server for AI integration.

▶️ https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar

Language: TypeScript, Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 863 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 26, 2026, 08:09 PM

Kubernetes WG Serving is disbanded

Yuan Tang, on behalf of the Serving working group co-chairs, https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev/c/nDjMph1146A/m/z-T7POJQBQAJ that the WG Serving’s goal had been accomplished and that the group is disbanded.

WG Serving was created to support the development of the AI inference stack on Kubernetes, making it "an orchestration platform of choice for inference workloads". In particular, it contributed to the design of AIBrix (a part of vLLM), while other unresolved problems were implemented by . The working group also helped with requirements.

All existing related efforts are now covered by other SIGs and working groups (including SIG Node, SIG Scheduling, and WG Device Management) or specific projects (such as Gateway API Inference Extension and Inference Perf).

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 24, 2026, 08:07 PM

Our latest selection of interesting Kubernetes-related articles recently spotted online:

1. https://spacelift.io/blog/kubernetes-rolling-update by James Walker, Spacelift.
In this guide, we will explain the benefits of rolling updates, describe how they work, and provide detailed examples of their use. We’ll also compare how rolling updates stack up against other popular deployment strategies.

2. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/28/experimenting-gateway-api-with-kind/ by Ricardo Katz, Red Hat.
This document will guide you through setting up a local experimental environment with Gateway API on kind. This setup is designed for learning and testing. It helps you understand Gateway API concepts without production complexity.

3. https://itnext.io/understanding-the-ingress-nginx-deprecation-before-you-migrate-to-the-gateway-api-fbf2ad0443bc by Artem Lajko.
Most blog posts about the Ingress-NGINX deprecation are optimized for clicks, not for engineers who actually have to migrate production systems. You’ll find tiny demo setups, toy examples, and conclusions that fall apart the moment you apply them to an enterprise environment. That frustration is the reason this guide exists. This article is based on our real enterprise setup, built on top of the kubara framework. It documents how we approached the migration, what worked, what didn’t, and — just as important — what we decided not to migrate.

4. https://blog.zmalik.dev/p/lazy-pulling-container-images-a-deep by Zain Malik.
This post starts with why the problem is harder than it looks at the byte level, then surveys the major approaches and what they trade off. The core of the post is a hands-on experiment: I deploy an in-cluster registry, convert images to eStargz, patch containerd with a custom snapshotter, and measure something nobody benchmarks properly. Not just pull time, but readiness, the moment a container can actually serve its first request.

5. https://medium.com/qonto-way/kernel-archaeology-why-36-cpus-crash-cilium-but-32-dont-2007f6f6772a by Pierre Magne, Qonto.
[..] The deployment looked successful. But then, over several weeks, we noticed sporadic crashes — roughly one Cilium agent per week, completely unrecoverable without restarting the entire node. No clear pattern, no obvious trigger. Rare enough to be hard to reproduce, but severe enough to block production deployment.

6. https://medium.com/@bossm8/running-fluxcd-locally-gitops-for-kubernetes-on-your-laptop-7842b89d67b7 by Marco Boss.
[..] I started looking for a way to develop and validate manifests locally, while still having full access to Flux features, and without resorting to brittle hacks or partial simulations. In this post, I’ll walk you through the approach I ended up with and show you how to run Flux locally in a way that actually feels usable for day-to-day development.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 24, 2026, 08:07 PM

Node Readiness Controller for Kubernetes

Last week, a new Kubernetes SIG project https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/02/03/introducing-node-readiness-controller/. The Node Readiness Controller can be used to define additional requirements for node readiness (e.g., GPU drivers are loaded). The controller will manage node taints to prevent scheduling until the required conditions are satisfied. It supports bootstrap-only and continuous enforcement modes. Currently, the project is in its alpha.

Find more details in the https://node-readiness-controller.sigs.k8s.io/ and on https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/node-readiness-controller.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 23, 2026, 04:51 PM

vCluster introduced vind, marketed as a better kind

vCluster Labs ( as Loft Labs) released a new tool called vind (vCluster in Docker). It is built on top of vCluster and allows you to run Kubernetes clusters directly as Docker containers, similarly to what kind (Kubernetes IN Docker) offers. However, it comes with the following extra features:

- pausing the clusters when they're not in use and resuming them;
- automatic LoadBalancer support;
- image caching (pull-through cache via local Docker daemon);
- support for connecting external nodes, which can be real cloud instances;
- support for choosing CNI and CSI plugins;
- built-in vCluster Platform UI.

You can find more details about vind on https://github.com/loft-sh/vind and in yesterday’s https://www.linkedin.com/events/7417677957579718656/ on LinkedIn.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 23, 2026, 04:51 PM

Optimising resources in Kubernetes is something we all want to do at some point. This new project aims to assist in that.

CruiseKube, dubbed as “Autopilot for Kubernetes”, is a controller that watches your K8s workloads and adjusts the resources accordingly. Here’s what it does:

- Continuously evaluates current CPU/memory usage and updates resource requests.
- Considers CPU pressure (PSI metrics) and other Pods on the node when resizing.
- Watches OOM memory values in stats and triggers Pod eviction when needed.
- Uses Prometheus as the primary metrics source.
- Provides a web UI to see and manage your settings.

▶️ https://github.com/truefoundry/CruiseKube
💬 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1qkt0m9/cruisekube_a_justintime_opensource_kubernetes/

Language: Go | License: MIT | 48 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 23, 2026, 04:51 PM

ClickHouse just got the official Kubernetes operator

Less than 5 hours ago, the official ClickHouse Operator got its first public release, v0.0.1. It allows you to create and manage ClickHouse clusters and features ClickHouse Keeper integration, storage provisioning, TLS/SSL support, and Prometheus metrics integration.

The operator is written in Go, is Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-operator.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 21, 2026, 09:51 AM

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Kubernetes-based alternatives to Heroku are real. Here’s one of them.

Canine positions itself as a “developer-friendly PaaS for your Kubernetes”. It’s focused on small development teams and simplifies using Kubernetes for them by providing:

- container builds performed via Docker BuildKit or Buildpacks;
- automatic deployment to GitHub and GitLab;
- web UI to deploy, scale, and manage (e.g., configure resource constraints) apps running in Kubernetes;
- integration with existing K8s tools, such as Helm, cert-manager, and Telepresence;
- single sign-on via SAML, OIDC, and LDAP.

▶️ https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 21, 2026, 09:51 AM

Another bunch of interesting Kubernetes-related articles recently spotted online:

1. https://octopus.com/blog/verifying-and-troubleshooting-kubernetes-deployments by Liam Mackie, Octopus Deploy.
Kubernetes has a gift for making simple problems look complicated, and complicated problems look simple. When something breaks, you often see symptoms completely unrelated to the real cause of the problem. This leads to a problem I like to call “blaming the network team”, where problems end up being diagnosed by the wrong engineers for a given issue. [..] I’ve personally experienced this dichotomy during my time as an engineer, working on both software and infrastructure, so I’m going to tell a story from two perspectives.

2. https://heilancoos.github.io/research/2025/12/16/kubernetes.html by Alexis Obeng.
My main motivation for writing this was to better understand for myself how Kubernetes works and its attack surface. I was also inspired from talking to people in the field and realizing just how prominent Kubernetes is in corporate environments. Although I did not cover every single attack vector here, I still cover a large amount of topics in the hope that this will prove useful to others seeking to understand Kubernetes’ attack surface.

3. https://palark.com/blog/cncf-sandbox-2025-jan/ by Dmitry Shurupov, Palark.
Learn about the following new CNCF projects: Podman Container Tools and Podman Desktop, bootc, composefs, k0s, KubeFleet, SpinKube, container2wasm, Runme Notebooks for DevOps, SlimFaas, Tokenetes, CloudNativePG, and Drasi.

4. https://www.prequel.dev/blog-post/the-real-state-of-helm-chart-reliability-2025-hidden-risks-in-100-open-source-charts by Prequel.
Prequel's reliability research team audited 105 popular Kubernetes Helm charts to reveal missing reliability safeguards. The average score was ~3.98/10. 48% (50 charts) rated "High Risk" (score ≤3/10). Only 17% (18 charts) were rated "Reliable" (≥7/10).

5. https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/01/20/reclaiming-underutilized-gpus-in-kubernetes-using-scheduler-plugins/ by Lalit Somavarapha, Gernot Seidler, Srujana Reddy Attunuri (HPE).
The default Kubernetes preemption mechanism (DefaultPreemption) can evict lower-priority pods to make room for higher-priority ones. But it only considers priority — not actual utilization. Pods are treated equivalently from a preemption perspective when they share the same priority, regardless of their current utilization. We evaluated several existing approaches.

6. https://medium.com/dodopayments/how-we-built-our-deployment-pipeline-gitops-argocd-and-kubernetes-at-dodo-payments-eb025549834e by Ayush Agarwal, Dodo Payments.
The investment in GitOps pays off at a certain scale. Below that scale, simpler solutions work fine. For us, running a payment platform with strict requirements around security, auditability, and reliability — GitOps isn’t optional. It’s infrastructure.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 20, 2026, 02:03 AM

Happy to share our first-in-2026 digest of the prominent software updates in the Cloud Native ecosystem!

Apache CloudStack, an Open Source IaaS solution, updated its CloudStack Kubernetes Provider, a cloud controller manager to facilitate K8s deployments, to https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-kubernetes-provider/releases/tag/v1.2.0. It added support for network ACLs for LB on VPC networks, a configurable source CIDR list, and ARM64 support for Docker images.

Harvester, a hyperconverged infrastructure solution built on Kubernetes, released https://github.com/harvester/harvester/releases/tag/v1.7.0 with experimental automatic VM workload rebalancing, support for MIG-backed vGPU devices, multipath device recognition and management, NIC hot plugging and hot unplugging, Open Virtual Format (OVF), pausable node upgrades, transparent hugepages configuration, VM VLAN trunking, and volume snapshots in guest clusters.

Jaeger (a CNCF Graduated project) reached https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/releases/tag/v2.14.0, which added a dark theme to the UI, removed legacy v1 components (query, collector, ingester), and added a bunch of experimental features, most of which are related to ClickHouse and the FindTraces implementation for this storage.

Keycloak, an identity and access management solution (a CNCF Incubating project), released https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/releases/tag/26.5.0 (with 26.5.1, which followed shortly). It introduced several new features in preview, such as Workflows to automate administrative tasks, JWT Authorization Grants, exporting logs and metrics to OpenTelemetry collectors, and authenticating clients with Kubernetes service account tokens. Other release highlights are support for Caddy as a reverse proxy provider for client certificate authentication, organisation invitation management, and a guide on integrating Keycloak with MCP servers.

Envoy (a CNCF Graduated project) was updated to https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.37.0, which brought many new features. Some of them include global module loading and streaming HTTP callouts to HTTP filters in dynamic modules, container-aware CPU detection, new MCP filter and router for agentic network, new stats-based access logger, production-ready Proto API Scrubber filter, cluster-level retry policies, hash policies, and request mirroring, and many more.

Kubebuilder, an SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs, has seen its https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/tag/v4.11.0 release. The helm/v1-alpha projects are now automatically migrated to helm/v2-alpha, which got numerous improvements, including nodeSelector, affinity, and tolerations support, standard Helm labels for generated resources, and custom resources added to templates/extras. Newly generated projects also got their AGENTS.md files.

#news #releases

Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 17, 2026, 10:27 AM

New Kubernetes working group: Checkpoint/Restore WG

The newly https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/21/introducing-checkpoint-restore-wg/ Kubernetes WG will focus on the Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU) ecosystem for K8s. It includes the https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu tool as well as checkpointctl, criu-coordinator, and checkpoint-restore-operator.

You can find the charter, which defines the scope and governance of this working group, and other information, including its public meetings, on https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-checkpoint-restore.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 13, 2026, 07:12 AM

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The latest CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey is published

Here are some of the report highlights:
1. 66% of organisations use Kubernetes to host GenAI workloads. 47% deploy AI models occasionally, and only 7% do it daily.
2. Top challenges of using containers are: cultural changes with the dev team (47%), lack of training (36%), security (36%), CI/CD (35%), monitoring (35%), and complexity (34%).
3. Among the Cloud Native innovators (organisations using Cloud Native techniques for nearly all of their development), CI/CD tools are used by 91%, GitOps by 58%, service mesh by 39%, containers for stateful apps by 79%, and serverless architecture by 64%.
4. Charts displaying the most used graduated and incubating CNCF projects are attached.

Find the full report on the https://www.cncf.io/reports/the-cncf-annual-cloud-native-survey/ (no registration is required).

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Mar 8, 2026, 02:41 PM

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KubeAcademy by VMware is retired

KubeAcademy was a free educational resource for learning Kubernetes online, curated by the VMware experts. In 2024, it offered dozens of free courses. In late 2023, Broadcom finalised its acquisition of VMware, which is what most likely affected KubeAcademy's existence: “As of January 1st, 2026, KubeAcademy has been https://kube.academy/retirement and the site will no longer be maintained or supported.”

The educational content produced by KubeAcademy is being published on https://github.com/kube-academy.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 8, 2026, 02:41 PM

As many are aware, MinIO has recently gone to "maintenance mode.” If you’ve been looking for a Kubernetes-friendly alternative, check out this new project.

Garage, an S3-compatible distributed object storage, just got an unofficial Kubernetes operator. Still being in its alpha, it simplifies deploying and maintaining Garage clusters with the following features implemented:

- Deploying StatefulSets with proper configuration, storage, and networking;
- Bucket creation with quotas;
- S3 key management with automatic credential generation;
- Multi-cluster federation by connecting Garage clusters across K8s instances.

▶️ https://github.com/rajsinghtech/garage-operator
💬 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1qeagkn/built_a_kubernetes_operator_for_garage_selfhosted/

Language: Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 44 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Mar 6, 2026, 01:15 AM

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Feel a need to validate your Dockerfiles against best practices? Consider trying this new tool.

Dockadvisor is a fast linter for Dockerfiles that helps you keep them optimal and consistent. Here’s what it offers:

- applying 60+ rules that cover standard instructions (FROM, RUN, ENV, etc.) and multi-stage builds;
- performs security checks, such as specifying secrets in variables;
- scores the quality of your Dockerfile on the scale from 0 to 100;
- can be used as a web interface, Go library, or WebAssembly module (i.e. executed in the browser).

▶️ https://github.com/deckrun/dockadvisor

Language: Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 70 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Feb 26, 2026, 02:06 PM

Percona Everest becomes OpenEverest

Percona Everest is a Cloud Native database platform that helps operating PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL databases in Kubernetes environments. Originating as a vendor-owned solution, it has now https://www.percona.com/blog/introducing-openeverest/ into an independent Open Source project called https://openeverest.io/. Percona has also formed a subsidiary, Solanica, that is fully focused on developing OpenEverest. The authors plan to donate OpenEverest to CNCF soon.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Feb 24, 2026, 07:24 AM

Kubernetes Dashboard is getting archived

Yesterday, the Kubernetes Dashboard maintainers https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-ui/c/vpYIRDMysek/m/wd2iedUKDwAJ that the “project will be archived and sunset in the coming days/weeks.” It has been developed in the Kubernetes SIG UI but lacked active contributors and maintainers for a while.

The authors recommend Headlamp as an alternative to Kubernetes Dashboard, since it a Kubernetes SIG UI project last year.

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Feb 24, 2026, 07:24 AM

If you’re not overwhelmed yet with your work after a holiday break… or if you’re just into having some educational and practical fun with Kubernetes, don’t miss this project!

K8sQuest is a new gamified training platform for K8s, where you need to troubleshoot and fix various issues using a GUI terminal featuring arcade game styling. Importantly, it can be self-hosted locally. The project comes with:

- 50 challenges, 5 categories, 3 difficulty levels;
- different K8s topics covered, including basics, scaling, networking, storage, and security;
- progressive hints and step-by-step guides, points for completed challenges, and progress auto-saving.

▶️ https://github.com/Manoj-engineer/k8squest
💬 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1pzqzfk/i_made_a_cli_game_to_learn_kubernetes_by_breaking/

Language: Shell, Python | License: Apache 2.0 | 326 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Feb 20, 2026, 01:59 AM

Looking for a way to simplify deploying LLMs on Kubernetes? This project provides everything you might need.

llmaz is an inference platform that integrates various Open Source projects for running LLMs. It supports:

- Different inference backends: vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, Text-Generation-Inference, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM.
- Different model providers: HuggingFace, ModelScope, and ObjectStores.
- Chatbot interface based on Open WebUI.
- Heterogeneous devices.
- Distributed inference via multi-host and homogeneous xPyD support with LeaderWorkerSet.
- Envoy AI Gateway for token-based rate limiting, model routing, and more.
- Horizontal Pod scaling (HPA) and node autoscaling (Karpenter).

▶️ https://github.com/InftyAI/llmaz

Language: Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 278 ⭐️

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Feb 16, 2026, 02:43 PM

Kubernetes 1.35 has been released. It is codenamed Timbernetes and comes with 60 enhancements: 17 stable, 19 beta, and 22 alpha features.

- https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/17/kubernetes-v1-35-release/
- https://palark.com/blog/kubernetes-1-35-release-features/

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Kubernative by Palark | Kubernetes news and goodies

Feb 16, 2026, 02:43 PM

No matter how tired you are from seeing all those Kubernetes dashboards. It’s Friday, so why not share yet another GUI… especially since it’s pretty neat! 🤪

Kite is a new Kubernetes dashboard, featuring a modern, responsive UI. While its initial public release happened less than 4 months ago, it already offers a lot for Kubernetes administrators:

- Complete resource management for all popular resources (from Pods to PVCs) and CRDs, including built-in editor (Monaco) for YAML manifests and resource relationships visualisation;
- Multi-cluster management with fine-grained permissions and automatic cluster discovery based on kubeconfig entries;
- RBAC and user management, OAuth integration;
- Powerful observability capabilities, including a general cluster overview, detailed Pod and Node monitoring, real-time metrics, and live logs streaming with filtering and search;
- An ability to execute commands directly in Pods or Nodes.

▶️ https://github.com/zxh326/kite
💬 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1obf8tb/kite_a_modern_lightweight_kubernetes_dashboard/

Language: TypeScript, Go | License: Apache 2.0 | 1802 ⭐️

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