Release Spotlight: Gateway API v1.2
Gateway API is an official Kubernetes project representing the next generation of K8s APIs for ingress, load balancing, and service meshes. In October, it released v1.2, and yesterday its general availability was announced in the Kubernetes blog.
The features graduated to the Gateway API's standard channel include HTTPRoute timeouts, Gateway infrastructure labels and annotations, and backend protocol support (the
appProtocol field in the Service and EndpointSlice Kubernetes resources). This release also introduced new experimental features, such as named rules for *Route resources, HTTPRoute retry support and percentage-based mirroring, and enhanced backend TLS configuration.Other significant updates in the Cloud Native space:
1. OpenShift 4.17 was released and is based on Kubernetes 1.30 and CRI-O 1.30. It brought eBPF manager operator, sigstore signature image verification, support for the DNF package manager, rapid recommendations in Insights Operator, support for multi-architecture compute machines in AWS and GCP, IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE compatibility, and much more.
2. Helm Dashboard, “the missing UI for Helm,” has reached its v2 with 2.0.2, which became its first public release since last summer. The most noticeable change is the frontend migration to ReactJS.
3. VictoriaLogs, a user-friendly database for logs from VictoriaMetrics, went GA with its v1.0.0 release. While it’s identical to v0.42.0 released earlier in November, it anticipates the maturity of VictoriaLogs for production usage and the implementation of all planned features since its initial release 1.5 years ago. Today, it allows ingesting logs from numerous log collectors (including OpenTelemetry Collector, Fluentd, and Vector) and comes with a powerful query language with full-text search and querying CLI. Find more details here.
4. Percona Operator for MongoDB was updated to v1.18.0, introducing support for selective restores from a backup and improved declarative user management. It also allows splitting the replica set of the database cluster over multiple Kubernetes clusters now.
5. Fluent Bit, a lightweight logs and metrics processor (a CNCF Graduated project), announced its v3.2. It features complete YAML support, SIMD support in the JSON encoder, and a new
blob data type. New experimental features also bring eBPF and profiles’ signal types (according to the OpenTelemetry Profile specification) to this project.#news #releases