Posts in 2026
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User Namespaces in Kubernetes: Finally GA
By Rodrigo Campos Catelin (Amutable), Giuseppe Scrivano (Red Hat) | Wednesday, April 22, 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 Sneak Peek
By Chad Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre | Monday, March 30, 2026 in Blog
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this cycle! Please note …
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Announcing Ingress2Gateway 1.0: Your Path to Gateway API
By Beka Modebadze (Google), Steven Jin (Microsoft) | Friday, March 20, 2026 in Blog
With the Ingress-NGINX retirement scheduled for March 2026, the Kubernetes networking landscape is at a turning point. For most organizations, the question isn't whether to migrate to Gateway API, but how to do so safely. Migrating from Ingress to …
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Running Agents on Kubernetes with Agent Sandbox
By Janet Kuo, Justin Santa Barbara | Friday, March 20, 2026 in Blog
The landscape of artificial intelligence is undergoing a massive architectural shift. In the early days of generative AI, interacting with a model was often treated as a transient, stateless function call: a request that spun up, executed for perhaps …
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Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes
By Shridivya Sharma | Wednesday, March 18, 2026 in Blog
During production debugging, the fastest route is often broad access such as cluster-admin (a ClusterRole that grants administrator-level access), shared bastions/jump boxes, or long-lived SSH keys. It works in the moment, but it comes with two …
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The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter
By Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) | Tuesday, March 17, 2026 in Blog
Every container image you pull from registry.k8s.io got there through kpromo, the Kubernetes image promoter. It copies images from staging registries to production, signs them with cosign, replicates signatures across more than 20 regional mirrors, …
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Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group
By Keith Mattix, Nir Rozenbaum, Morgan Foster, Flynn | Monday, March 09, 2026 in Blog
The community around Kubernetes includes a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Working Groups (WGs) facilitating discussions on important topics between interested contributors. Today, we're excited to announce the formation of the AI …
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Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know
By Steven Jin (Microsoft) | Friday, February 27, 2026 in Blog
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today. This blog highlights these …
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Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance
By Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute) | Thursday, February 12, 2026 in Blog
This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: API Governance. In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the API …
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Introducing Node Readiness Controller
By Ajay Sundar Karuppasamy (Google) | Tuesday, February 03, 2026 in Blog
In the standard Kubernetes model, a node’s suitability for workloads hinges on a single binary "Ready" condition. However, in modern Kubernetes environments, nodes require complex infrastructure dependencies—such as network agents, storage …