Release Spotlight: Karpenter 1.0
Karpenter is a Kubernetes node autoscaler launched by AWS in November 2021. Today, it’s adopted by numerous well-known companies worldwide. Its v1.0.0 release anticipates that Karpenter has graduated from beta officially becoming production-ready.
The latest changes include enhanced disruption controls by reason (
Underutilized / Empty / Drifted), new consolidateAfter consolidation control for underutilized nodes, new disruption control terminationGracePeriod, and immutable NodeClaims. Find more information about this release and how to migrate to it here. Other noticeable updates in the Cloud Native space:
1. Linkerd 2.16 is available with IPv6 support, audit mode for security policies, new retries, timeouts, and route metrics for Gateway API
HTTPRoute and GPRCRoute resources, JSON output for all Linkerd CLI commands that output Kubernetes resources.2. Istio 1.23 was released and delivered numerous updates for the ambient mode (a single Helm chart to install all ambient mode components, support for dual-stack and IPv6 clusters,
trafficDistribution in Services, etc.), a new implementation of DNS auto-allocation, retry policy for inbound traffic, and switching to the Wolfi container base OS for distroless images.3. vCluster, a Loft Labs solution for creating virtual Kubernetes clusters, got its v0.20.0. It introduced a new centralized configuration file (
vcluster.yaml), unified Helm chart, support for SQLite and external databases as a storage backend (instead of etcd), and new default distribution for the vCluster control plane (vanilla Kubernetes instead of K3s).4. Podman Desktop 1.12 was released with support for remote Podman setups, macOS GPU & Windows GPU, enhanced Kubernetes dashboard, and Podman 5.2.0.
5. helm-mapkubeapis, a Helm plugin that maps deprecated and removed Kubernetes APIs in a release to supported APIs, has seen its first releases in over a year. With v0.5.0, it got the latest Kubernetes API deprecation data, updated Helm dependencies, and ARM64 support for Mac.
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