Kubernetes v1.36 Highlights Here’s a quick summary of Kubernetes v1.36 key highlights: • HPA scaling to zero • Ephemeral image pull tokens • kube-proxy IPVS deprecation • faster scheduler • Gateway API momentum • improved support for AI workloads These changes continue the trend of Kubernetes becoming: • more secure • more scalable • more cost-efficient • better suited for modern cloud workloads If you're running production clusters, it’s worth reviewing these features early. #Kubernetes #DevOps #CloudNative #KubernetesRelease #PlatformEngineering
Kubernetes v1.36 is moving fast and the credential provisioning improvements look like the kind of change that will actually prevent the 2am incidents. The shift toward structured auth and improved garbage collection for secrets in large clusters is long overdue. Which feature from v1.36 do you think will see the most production adoption first?
I believe many people will implement Scale to Zero without evaluating the real impacts on applications. We'll have to wait and see what happens as this feature is adopted.
The HPA Scale To Zero feature gate, which has been in alpha since v1.16, is on the 1.36 roadmap to be enabled by default but heads up it only works with Object/External metrics (queues, custom metrics), not with CPU/memory. For scaling from zero based on native HTTP traffic, you'll still need KEDA or Knative. 👍 😊
HPA to 0 would be super helpful especially for non-prod environments when teams want to hibernate their deployments when it is mixed with HPA.
Full sneak-peek article: https://thekubeguy.com/kubernetes-v1-36-sneak-peek-7c5422ffd841