Authors:Adolfo García Veytia (Chainguard), Bob Killen (Google)

Starting with Kubernetes 1.25, our container image registry has changed from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io.This new registry spreads the load across multiple Cloud Providers & Regions, functioning as a sort of content delivery network (CDN) for Kubernetes container images.This change reduces the project’s reliance on a single entity and provides a faster download experience for a large number of users.

TL;DR:What you need to know about this change

Container images for Kubernetes releases

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Author:Frederico Muñoz (SAS) Change is an integral part of the Kubernetes life-cycle:as Kubernetes grows and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with improvements for the health of the project.For Kubernetes v1.26 there are several planned:this article identifies and describes some of them, based on the information available at this mid-cycle point in the v1.26 release process, which is still ongoing and can introduce additional changes.

The Kubernetes API Removal and Deprecation process

The Kubernetes project has a well-documented deprecation

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Author: Alexander Block This blog post was inspired by a previous Kubernetes blog post about Advanced Server Side Apply.The author of said blog post listed multiple benefits for applications and controllers when switching to server-side apply (from now on abbreviated with SSA).Especially the chapter about CI/CD systems motivated me to respond and write down my thoughts and experiences. These thoughts and experiences are the results of me working on Kluctl for the past 2 years.I describe Kluctl as "The missing glue to put together large Kubernetes

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Author: Daniel Smith (Google)

Server-side apply (SSA) has now been GA for a few releases, and I have found myself in a number of conversations, recommending that people / teams in various situations use it.So I’d like to write down some of those reasons.

Obvious (and not-so-obvious) benefits of SSA

A list of improvements / niceties you get from switching from various things to Server-side apply!

• Versus client-side-apply (that is, plain kubectl apply):

The system gives you conflicts when you accidentally fight with

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Authors (in alphabetical order):Cailyn Edwards (Shopify), Pushkar Joglekar (VMware), Rey Lejano (SUSE) and Rory McCune (DataDog) We expect the brand new Third Party Security Audit of Kubernetes will be published later this month (Oct 2022). In preparation for that, let's look at the state of findings that were made public as part of the last third party security audit of 2019 that was based on Kubernetes v1.13.4.

Motivation

Craig Ingram has graciously attempted over the years to keep track of the status of the

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