1. k8sgpt is a tool bringing AI power to simplify troubleshooting and scanning your Kubernetes clusters. With its most recent 0.3.38 release, it got support for two new AI providers, Ollama and IBM watsonx.ai.
2. Percona Operator for PostgreSQL was updated to v2.4.0, and several new features were introduced. They include fully automated upgrades of PgSQL major versions, support for PgSQL tablespaces, and using AWS IAM roles to access S3 buckets for backups.
3. KWOK (Kubernetes Without Kubelet) is a toolkit for simulating a K8s cluster with thousands of nodes. Its latest release, v0.6.0, brings numerous changes, such as sidecar container support in stage policy, Helm charts support, numerous improvements in Stage API and kwokctl (
--all and --force flags for kwokctl delete cluster, nerdctl support, etc.).4. Harvester, the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution from SUSE built on Kubernetes, was updated to v1.3.1. New features include support for NVIDIA vGPU, ARM64, HA two-node clusters, devices with frequent power interruptions or relocations (such as edge), managed DHCP, and Fleet integration.
5. KubeBlocks, “a control plane software that runs and manages databases, message queues and other stateful applications on K8s”, has released v0.9.0. Some of its highlights include support for topologies in ClusterDefinition API, managing horizontal scaling of distributed databases, using InstanceSets instead of StatefulSets to manage Pods, PostgreSQL PITR, MySQL Replication mode, Redis Cluster mode support.
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