Authors: Jay Vyas (Tesla), Amim Knabben (Broadcom), and Tatenda Zifudzi (AWS) Since Windows support graduated to stable with Kubernetes 1.14 in 2019, the capability to run Windows workloads has been much appreciated by the end user community.The level of and availability of Windows workload support has consistently been a major differentiator for Kubernetes distributions used by large enterprises.However, with more Windows workloads being migrated to Kubernetes and new Windows features being continuously released, it became challenging to test Windows worker nodes in an effective and standardized way. The Kubernetes

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Author: Tim Hockin (Google) The Go programming language has played a huge role in the success of Kubernetes.As Kubernetes has grown, matured, and pushed the bounds of what "regular" projects do, the Go project team has also grown and evolved the language and tools.In recent releases, Go introduced a feature called "workspaces" which was aimed at making projects like Kubernetes easier to manage. We've just completed a major effort to adopt workspaces in Kubernetes, and the results are great.Our codebase is simpler and less error-prone, and we're no longer

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Authors: Amit Dsouza, Frederick Kautz, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy, Natali Vlatko

A quick look:exciting changes in Kubernetes v1.30

It's a new year and a new Kubernetes release.We're halfway through the release cycle and have quite a few interesting and exciting enhancements coming in v1.30.From brand new features in alpha, to established features graduating to stable, to long-awaited improvements, this release has something for everyone to pay attention to! To tide you over until the official release, here's a sneak peek of the enhancements we're most excited about

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Author: Sascha Grunert Seccomp stands for secure computing mode and has been a feature of the Linux kernel since version 2.6.12.It can be used to sandbox the privileges of a process, restricting the calls it is able to make from userspace into the kernel.Kubernetes lets you automatically apply seccomp profiles loaded onto a node to your Pods and containers. But distributing those seccomp profiles is a major challenge in Kubernetes, because the JSON files have to be available on all nodes where a workload can possibly run.Projects like the

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Author:Arujjwal Negi One of the most popular ways developers use Kubernetes-related services is via cloud providers, but have you ever wondered how cloud providers can do that?How does this whole process of integration of Kubernetes to various cloud providers happen?To answer that, let's put the spotlight on SIG Cloud Provider. SIG Cloud Provider works to create seamless integrations between Kubernetes and various cloud providers.Their mission?Keeping the Kubernetes ecosystem fair and open for all.By setting clear standards and requirements, they ensure every cloud provider plays

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