1. Kubermatic released a new version of KubeOne, its solution to automate Kubernetes cluster operations throughout various environments, v1.9.0. It brought a technical preview of KubeOne UI, an initial implementation of the KubeVirt provider, new
kubeone kubeconfig generate command, Kubernetes 1.31 and Ubuntu 24.04 support, and Cilium v1.16.2. Thanos, a highly available Prometheus setup with long-term storage (a CNCF Incubating project), was updated to v0.37.0. It came with a new replication protocol (using Cap'n Proto) for Receivers, hedged requests support and metadata API limit in Store, native histograms for client latency metrics and an ability to do concurrent rule evaluations in Ruler, and much more.
3. Harvester, a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution from SUSE built on Kubernetes, has seen its v1.4.0 with lots of new features. It introduced experimental support for local storage (via harvester-csi-driver-lvm add-on), Longhorn V2 data engine, and volume encryption and decryption. Other new features include third-party storage for diskless servers, read-write-many (RWX) volumes for guest cluster workloads, scheduled VM backups and snapshots, USB passthrough, and CPU pinning.
4. Woodpecker CI/CD engine was updated to 2.8.0, which added more flexible PR approval options and a full support for Windows containers in Docker backend.
5. External Secrets Operator (a CNCF Sandbox project) issued its v0.11.0, featuring a new way of reconciling external secrets, which significantly reduces the number of API calls. It also introduced caching for ClusterGenerators and Generator as well as CRD validation for all resources.
6. Falcosidekick, which connects Falco (a cloud native runtime security tool, a CNCF Graduated project) to your ecosystem, was updated to 2.30.0, with three new outputs (Webex, OTLP Metrics, and Datadog Logs), significantly improved throughput, better integration with Elasticsearch, and better consistency for Prometheus metrics.
7. Perses, a dashboard tool for visualising observability data (recently accepted to the CNCF Sandbox), released the first public version of its Kubernetes operator, v0.1.0. Being in its alpha, Perses operator currently lacks documentation, yet its README provides a brief instruction for trying it out.
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