Posts in 2026

  • Kubernetes v1.37: Native Histograms Graduates to Beta

    By Richa Banker (Google) | Friday, September 11, 2026 in Blog

    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 …

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  • Kubernetes v1.37: Scheduler Preemption for In-Place Pod Resize (Alpha)

    By Natasha Sarkar (Google) | Thursday, September 10, 2026 in Blog

    In 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 …

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  • Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions

    By Ryan Hallisey (NVIDIA) | Wednesday, September 09, 2026 in Blog

    Kubernetes 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 …

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  • Kubernetes v1.37: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling

    By Antoni Zawodny (Google), Bartosz Rejman (Google), Heba Elayoty (Microsoft), Jon Huhn (Microsoft), Maciej Skoczeń (Google), Maciej Wyrzuc (Google), Matt Matejczyk (Google) | Tuesday, September 08, 2026 in Blog

    AI/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 …

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  • 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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